Roth, Joseph – The Bell Bookshop

The Radetzky March

Emma — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

‘One of the greatest novels ever written’ Philippe SandsSet against the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta family, tracing their rise and fall over three generations. Theirs is a sweeping history of heroism and duty, desire and compromise, tragedy and heartbreak, a story that lasts until the darkening eve of World War One, when all is set to fall apart. Rich, epic and profoundly moving, The Radetzky March is Joseph Roth’s timeless masterpiece.

Radetzky March

Emma — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

‘a 20th Century masterpiece’– The Telegraph'”For sheer, epic sweep, I love reading The Radetzky March… I can’t recommend it highly enough” Jeremy PaxmanSet during the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story of the celebrated Trotta family, tracing their rise and fall over three generations. Theirs is a sweeping history of heroism and duty, desire and compromise, tragedy and heartbreak, a story that lasts until the darkening eve of WWI, when all is set to fall apart. A rich and luminous masterpiece, moving, compassionate, witty and dramatic, The Radetzky March is one of the great reading pleasures of 20th-century literature.

Hotel Years

Emma — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

The hotel that I love like a fatherland is situated in one of the great port cities of Europe, and the heavy gold Antiqua letters in which its banal name is spelled out shining across the roofs of the gently banked houses are in my eye metal flags, metal bannerets that instead of fluttering shine out their greeting. In the 1920s and 30s, Joseph Roth travelled extensively in Europe, leading a peripatetic life living in hotels and writing about the towns through which he passed. Incisive, nostalgic, curious, and sharply observed - and collected together here for the first time - his pieces paint a picture of a continent racked by change yet clinging to tradition.