The Radetzky March (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover

Roth, Joseph

 
9780140188530: The Radetzky March (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.)

Synopsis

Told through the lives of the Von Trotta family, this book shows the deterioration of a society and an empire. Disparate nationalities have been forced into political unity by an overriding authority and its symbol: the Austro-Hungarian empire and the personality of Emperor Franz Joseph.

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About the Author

Joseph Roth was born in 1894 into a Jewish family living in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and now split between Poland and Ukraine. He became a successful journalist and travelled widely, eventually becoming best-known for his novels The Radetzky March (also in Penguin Modern Classics), The Emperor's Tomb and The Legend of the Holy Drinker . He died in Paris in 1939.

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