The Hotel Years. Wanderings in Europe between the Wars, Paperback - Joseph Roth

A tender, unsettling collection of writing capturing a continent on the brink of further upheaval.Publisher: Granta BooksAuthor(s): Joseph RothTran...

Martin Kitchen's compelling account of Europe between the wars sets the twenty-year crisis within the context of the profound sense of cultural mal...

Reducere. Nach dreij hriger Kriegsgefangenschaft in Sibirien kehrt Gabriel Dan heim und quartiert sich im Hotel Savoy ein. Er ist ohne Gep ck anmarschiert un...

From the 1880s to the Second World War, Campbell Road, Finsbury Park (known as Campbell Bunk), had a notorious reputation for violence, for breedin...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE - "A beautiful and deeply moving book."--Sally Rooney, author of Normal...

Publisher: Monash University PublishingAuthor(s): Dr Patricia, OAM ClarkeNumber of pages: 240Collection: Australian HistoryPublication date: 2013Di...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Chris (University of Lincoln, UK) O'RourkeIllustration(s): 18 bw illusNumber of pages: 224Collection...

Bounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war period has characteristically be...

Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European countries between the two wo...

What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years? Taking the form of a multiple biography, this book traces the struggles, passions and...

Reducere. Appearing in English for the first time, The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth includes seventeen novellas and stories that echo the intensity and a...

AS SEEN AND HEARD ON: BBC NEWS, RADIO 2, RADIO 4, ITV NEWS, LBC NEWS, ALJAZEERA, CHANNEL 4 NEWS AND SKY NEWS 'At a time when displacement has becom...

In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European history, from prehistory thro...

Launched in March 2010 by the European Commission, the Europe 2020 strategy aims to achieve "smart, sustainable, and inclusive" growth. This CEPS r...

DescriptionA powerful collection written on the eve of the destruction of Europe by the Second World War, by the great Joseph Roth Having fled to P...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A companion piece to Roth's masterpiece, The Radetzky March: an aching novel reckoning with the legacy of war, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the...

A witty novel of 'sublime simplicity' about an alcoholic vagrant who has a series of lucky breaks that lift him briefly onto a different plane of e...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The methods developed by British intelligence in the early twentieth century continue to resonate today. Much like now, the intelligence activity o...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Punic Wars, then keep reading...The Punic Wars between 264 BCE and 146 BCE were a series of ...

DescriptionAfter the austerity, horror, and bloodshed of World War I, France longed for joy, light-heartedness, and sexual freedom. Men and newly e...

DescriptionThis collection of essays explores intermediality as a new perspective in the interpretation of the cinemas that have emerged after the ...

'The White Cities collects fifteen years of incomparable reportage... What Roth sees is always arresting, often atrocious, usually absurd... A "jou...

Picturing England between the Wars offers a richly illustrated study of the interplay of word and image in representations of the English countrysi...

Publisher: Europe BooksAuthor(s): Bruce ClarkNumber of pages: 174Collection: Draw SpacesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 141 x 208 x 20Cover type:...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Napoleonic Wars, then keep reading...The Napoleonic Wars, which took place between 1803 and ...

A classic of reportage: Roth's compassionate, incisive account of Berlin in the 1920s, chronicling the moral bankruptcy of the Jazz Age and the ris...

A taut fable and one of Roth's most acclaimed novels, which follows pious and god-fearing Job from the ghettos of Tsarist Russia to the unforgiving...

Reducere. The author's greatest achievement, The Radetzky March is an unparalleled portrait of a civilization in decline, and as such, a universal story for ...

Reducere. From Joseph Roth, an allegorical yet decidedly modern novelist, comes this story of postwar disillusion, the limits of faith, and "personal fate as...

Publisher: Hodder EducationAuthor(s): Terry FiehnIllustration(s): colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 136Collection: Discovering the Past for GCSE...

Examining the triangular relationship between Iran, Britain and the Gulf Arab shaykhdoms, this is the first book to investigate the origins of the ...

Reducere. One of "Five Best Books about Wartime Presidents"--Michael Bechloss, The Wall Street Journal From Lyndon Johnson's closest domestic adviser during ...

Writing in the traditional form of the family saga, Roth nevertheless manages to bring to his story a completely individual manner which gives at t...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Doreen (Professor Emerita of Women's Studies, Professor Emerita of Women's Studies, San Diego Stat...

Reducere. In the early nineteenth century the major English chocolate firms--Fry, Rowntree, and Cadbury--were all Quaker family enterprises that aimed to do ...

Reducere. What can a college admissions officer safely predict about the future of a 17-year-old? Are the best and the brightest students the ones who can ch...

It's the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his ho...

*Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The Weimar Republic has become a byword for a failed, tragic, ...

Reducere. The Joseph Roth revival has finally gone mainstream with the thunderous reception for "What I Saw, " a book that has become a classic with five har...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph C. EwoodzieThe origin story of hip-hop--one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Br...

Tying in with the 100-year anniversary of the First World War Armistice, this title explores the huge global aftershocks of the end of the Great Wa...

Reducere. Un roman năucitor despre atmosfera și identitatea Europei, concentrat în jurul unui hotel care adăpostește contradicțiile multiple ale continentulu...

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Reducere. Cardinal Ratzinger addresses the challenges and responsibilities that both the Church and society in Europe face after the collapse of Marxism. Bot...

Publisher: Practical Pre-School BooksAuthor(s): Sue AllinghamIllustration(s): col. IllustrationsNumber of pages: 70Collection: Early Childhood Esse...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Greco-Persian Wars, then keep reading...This cultural prominence was on full display during ...