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Weights and Measures
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‘Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one’At his wife’s insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery officer Anselm Eibenschütz leaves his beloved Austro-Hungarian army and takes up a civilian post, as Inspector of Weights and Measures in a remote backwater near the Russian border. At first he does everything by the book, but gradually he finds himself adrift in a world of petty corruption, bribery and drunkenness – and undone by his passion for the beautiful gypsy Euphemia. A haunting evocation of Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the early twentieth century, Weights and Measures is also the story of the disintegration of a good man.Translated by David Le Vay
Additional information
| Weight | 0.091 kg |
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| Dimensions | 0.7 × 13 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 112 |
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| Year Published | 2017-10-5 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0241307449 |
| 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. |
This small novel is a masterpiece |
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| Other text | Weights and Measures gave me the purest reading pleasure… A haunting little book, touched by genius |
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