A combined edition of: March Violets , The Pale Criminal , and, A German Requiem .

First published in 1935, this is the story of a distinguished scholar in Germany between the wars. It builds up the elements in the scholar himself, and in his personal relationships, which will lead to his destruction. The author won the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Radetzky March charts the history of the Trotta family through three generations spanning the rise and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Through the Battle of Solferino to the entombment of the last Hapsburg emperor, Roth's intelligent compassion illuminates the crumbling of a way of life.

Delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925 to 1955 through the eyes of Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his retarded childhood fantastically counterpoints the accumulating horrors of Germany and Poland under the Nazis.

Evokes the gathering storm of Berlin before and during the rise to power of the Nazis. This title looks at events that are seen through the eyes of a series of individuals, whose lives are all about to be ruined.

To coincide with the celebration of the 250th anniversary of his birth, this book presents in a single volume four of Goethe''s principal masterpieces, together with a small selection of his poems and letters'