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.

The first English translation of Joseph Roth's portrayal of the vanished world of East European Jewry: their poverty, communities and trades, their feast days and the mysticism of their rabbis.

Presents an account of three generations of the Trotta family in the years preceding the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918.

This is a touching study of family life at the time of the demise of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth gives a detailed and intimate portrait of family life and the wider panorama of a failing dynasty.

Strauss's Radetzky March I, signature tune of one of Europe's most powerful regimes, presides over Joseph Roth's account of three generations of the Trotta family in the years preceding the Austro-Hungarian collapse in 1918. Grandfather, son and grandson are equally dependent on the empire: the first for his enoblement; the second for the civil virtues that make him a meticulous servant of an admi

In 1920, Joseph Roth arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic where he produced a series of impressionistic and political writings. Translated and collected here, these pieces record the violent social and political paroxysms that constantly threatened to undo the fragile democracy.

Joseph Roth, the greatest European newspaper correspondent of his age, left the splintering Weimar Republic for Paris in 1925. Collected together in English, these pieces evoke a world of suppleness, beauty and promise. This book is not only a swan song to a European order that could no longer hold but is also a revelatory work.

The story of a Great War veteran, Andreas Pum, who loses a leg and gains a medal. He marries, plays a barrel organ, and is happy. But when he is imprisoned after a fight, life seems unbearably altered. Then a chance encounter with an old comrade gives Pum a transfiguring experience of justice.

Set in the 1920s, this novel charts the rivalry of the two sons of a wealthy banker, one of them a Nazi. It evokes the atmosphere of Berlin in the years before the rise of Nazism, when its society was on the brink of disintegration.

This tale of an alcoholic is a secular, miracle story, that describes the fortunes of a vagrant who, after living under bridges, has a series of lucky breaks that lift him briefly onto a different plane of existence.

Appearing in English for the first time, Roth's novellas and short stories are considered by some to rank with Chekhov's and Kafka's as among the greatest of the 20th century. Each of these short works conjures characters and an entire world with breathtaking concision.

The tale of Mendel Singer, a God-fearing and ordinary Jew, living in Zuchnow in Russia. This modern Job goes through his trials in the ghettos of Tsarist Russia and on the unforgiving streets of New York. He loses his family, falls terribly ill and is badly abused. He needs a miracle.

In The Spider's Web , his first novel, Roth paints a chillingly realistic picture of the conspiracies of the radical right that were to undermine the Weimar Republic and pave the way for Hitler and National Socialism.

Set in the early days of the Russian Revolution, Tarabas tells the story of Nicholas Tarabas, a young revolutionary ignominously dispatched from St Petersburg to New York by his outraged family.

I have killed and yet I consider myself to be a good man . So begins the tale of former Russian spy Golubchik. As he recounts his tale to a rapt audience, they find themselves drawn into his quest to claim the noble name of his father, his affair with a model and his hatred for his half-brother.

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Gabriel Dan is a former soldier in the Austrian army who returns from a Siberian prison camp, some time after World War I. He arrives in an unnamed town that might be in Poland, and lodges at the Hotel Savoy. The owner is absent, the guests are deranged, and murder and chaos ensue.

An elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to the passing of time and the loss of youth and friends.