Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in a small Galician town on the eastern borders of the Hapsburg Empire. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918, he worked as a journalist in Vienna and in Berlin. He died in Paris in 1939, leaving behind 13 novels, including The Radetzky March (1932), as well as many stories and essays.

Joseph Roth's Titles

Hotel Savoy

Hotel Savoy

Still bearing scars from the gulag, a freed POW traverses Russia to arrive at the Polish town of Lodz. In its massive Hotel Savoy, he meets a...


Three Novellas THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY DRINKER, FALLMERAYER THE STATIONMASTER AND THE BUST OF TH

Three Novellas

Written in the final days of Roth's life, it is a novella of sparkling lucidity and humanity. "Fallmerayer the Stationmaster" and "The Bust of...


Silent Prophet

The Silent Prophet

Based on his own observations during an extended stay in Moscow in the winter of 1926, The Silent Prophet is Roth’s vivid attempt to explain...


Confession of a Murderer Told in One Night

Confession of a Murderer

In a Russian restaurant on Paris's Left Bank, Russian exile Golubchik alternately fascinates and horrifies a rapt audience with a wild story...


Job The Story of A Simple Man

Job

The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth's classic saga of the privileged von Trotta family, encompasses the entire social fabric of the Austro-Hungarian...


Emperor's Tomb

The Emperor's Tomb

Joseph Roth's The Emperor's Tomb is a continuation of the saga of the von Trotta family from The Radetzky March. This novel presents both a...


Radetzky March A Novel

The Radetzky March

"Epic . . . brilliantly achieved." (New York Times Book Review)The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth's classic saga of the privileged von Trotta family,...