Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He published several books and articles before his untimely death at the age of 44. Roth’s writing has been admired by J. M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Elie Wiesel, and Nadine Gordimer, among many others.

Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He published several books and articles before his untimely death at the age of 44. Roth’s writing has been admired by J. M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Elie Wiesel, and Nadine Gordimer, among many others.

Books by Joseph Roth

  • Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann, Michael Hofmann

    Hardback, 2012

    The monumentality of this biographical work further establishes Joseph Roth—with Kafka, Mann, and Musil—in the twentieth-century literary canon.
  • The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2003

    The Collected Stories, in its variety and force, is the essential introduction to the fiction of Joseph Roth.
  • Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann, Michael Hofmann

    E Book, 2012

    The monumentality of this biographical work further establishes Joseph Roth—with Kafka, Mann, and Musil—in the twentieth-century literary canon.
  • The Wandering Jews

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2001

    The classic portrait of a vanished people.
  • What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2004

    "[Joseph Roth] is now recognized as one of the twentieth century's great writers."—Anthony Heilbut, Los Angeles Times Book Review
  • Report From a Parisian Paradise: Essays from France, 1925-1939

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2005

    The wisdom of a lost generation distilled in a bottle of Calvados.
  • The Hundred Days

    Joseph Roth, Richard Panchyk

    Hardback, 2015

    Napoleon's return to the throne in Paris, as imagined by the incomparable Joseph Roth.

  • The Hotel Years

    Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2015

    The first overview of all Joseph Roth’s journalism: traveling across a Europe in crisis, he declares,“I am a hotel citizen, a hotel patriot.”
  • The Hundred Days

    Joseph Roth, Richard Panchyk

    Paperback, 2016

    Now in paperback, Napoleon’s return to the throne in Paris, as imagined by the incomparable Joseph Roth
  • The Hundred Days

    Joseph Roth, Richard Panchyk

    E Book, 2016

    Now in paperback, Napoleon’s return to the throne in Paris, as imagined by the incomparable Joseph Roth