Right and Left / The Legend of the Holy Drinker
by Joseph Roth
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With tragic foresight, Right and Left, first published in 1929, evokes the nightlife, corruption, political unrest, and economic tyranny of Berlin in the twenties, the same territory covered trenchantly in Roth's reportage, recently published as What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-33. After serving in World War I, Paul Bernheim returns to Berlin to find himself heir to his recently deceased father's banking empire. Increasingly beset by skyrocketing inflation, and dismayed by his brother's show more infatuation with the brownshirts; Bernheim turns to an outsider for help--a profiteering Russian émigré whose advice proves alternately advantageous and disastrous. Too late to change his fate, he realizes he has been deceived by a master in the craft of manipulation. show lessTags
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Author and journalist Joseph Roth was born on September 2, 1894. During World War I, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918. Afterwards, he worked as a journalist in Vienna and in Berlin. His best-known works are The Radetzky March and Job. He died in Paris on May 27, 1939 and is buried in Thiais Cemetery. (Bowker Author show more Biography) Joseph Roth is the author of such classics as The Radetzky March and The Emperor's Tomb. He died in Paris in 1939. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 833.912 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction 1900- 1900-1990 1900-1945
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- PT2635 .O84 .L413 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1860/70-1960
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