Illegitimate son of a Russian prince and raised by a forester, the narrator joins the Ochrana, the Czar's secret police, and plans revenge on his legitimate half brother
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About the Author:
Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in a small Galician town on the eastern borders of the Hapsburg Empire. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918, he worked as a journalist in Vienna and in Berlin. He died in Paris in 1939, leaving behind thirteen novels as well as many stories and essays.
Language Notes:
Text: English, German (translation)
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- PublisherThe Overlook Press
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0879519894
- ISBN 13 9780879519896
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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