Joseph Roth 3 Books Collection Set Peter Owen Modern Classic - Adult - Paperback

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Here, in a remote territory near the Russian border, he finds his principles and the rectitude he brings to his trade duties are at odds with a host of smugglers, profiteers and petty crooks. In a frontier town where the law is seen to interfere with the lives of ordinary people, Eibenschütz discovers that his integrity is not as incorruptible as he at first imagined. Spending more and more hours at the tavern, he is drawn hopelessly to a beautiful gypsy woman, Euphemia. Meanwhile his enemy, Jadlowker, an unprincipled profiteer, continues to make the tavern a beacon for local smuggling activity . . . A fable about the disintegration of a good man, Weights and Measures was the third Roth novel to be translated into English. It was one of the the last he wrote, as he drank himself to death in unhappy exile in Fran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Silent Prophet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Silent Prophet is the result of Joseph Roth’s visit to Moscow in 1926 when speculation about the fate of Trotsky was rife. 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Here, in a remote territory near the Russian border, he finds his principles and the rectitude he brings to his trade duties are at odds with a host of smugglers, profiteers and petty crooks. In a frontier town where the law is seen to interfere with the lives of ordinary people, Eibenschütz discovers that his integrity is not as incorruptible as he at first imagined. Spending more and more hours at the tavern, he is drawn hopelessly to a beautiful gypsy woman, Euphemia. Meanwhile his enemy, Jadlowker, an unprincipled profiteer, continues to make the tavern a beacon for local smuggling activity . . . A fable about the disintegration of a good man, Weights and Measures was the third Roth novel to be translated into English. 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