The Coral Merchant
Essential Stories
New translations of the six greatest short stories by Joseph Roth, collected in a beautiful edition
Joseph Roth's sensibility--both clear-eyed and nostalgic, harshly realistic and tenderly humane--produced some of the most distinctive fiction of the twentieth century. This collection of his most essential stories, in exquisite new translations by Ruth Martin, showcases the astonishing range and power of his short stories and novellas.
In prose of aching beauty and precision, Roth shows us isolated souls pursuing lost ideals and impossible desires. Forced to remove a bust of the fallen Austrian emperor from his house, an eccentric old count holds a funeral for it and intends to be buried in the same plot himself; a humble coral merchant, dissatisfied with his life and…
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November 10, 2020Joseph Roth was born into a Jewish family in the small town of Brody in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied first in Lemberg and then in Vienna, and served in the Austrian army during World War I. He went on to work as a journalist, travelling widely, staying in hotels and living out of suitcases, while also being a prolific writer of fiction, including the novels Job (1930) and The Radetzky March (1932). Roth left Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933 and settled in Paris, where he died in 1939.
Flight Without End
Joseph Roth
Weights and Measures
Joseph Roth
The Coral Merchant
Joseph Roth
On the End of the World
Joseph Roth
And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon
Nikolai Gogol
The Siren’s Lament
Jun'Ichiro Tanizaki
Every Day is To-Day
Gertrude Stein
Nocturnal Apparitions
Bruno Schulz
The Looking-Glass
Machado De Assis
Of Sunshine and Bedbugs
Isaac Babel
A Bad Business
Fyodor Dostoevsky
I Would Prefer Not To
Herman Melville
Strange Bliss
Katherine Mansfield
The Captain's Daughter
Alexander Pushkin
Murder in the Age of Enlightenment
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Love and Youth
Ivan Turgenev
The Coral Merchant
Joseph Roth