The Hundred Days

Roth, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0811222780 / ISBN 13: 9780811222785

Published by New Directions, 2014

About this Item

"NY: New Directions, 2014. Hard Cover w/ DJ. First Edition (stated First published in cloth by New Directions, 2014 with complete number line). Translated from the German by Richard Panchyk. Small 8vo, 215 pp (Including Translator's Afterword). Green boards with black cloth spine with white titles are clean with a strong binding, straight edges and corners. Pages are clean, no names or remainder markings, not Ex-Library. Unclipped DJ ($22.95) is clean and bright, lightly shelf worn and protected in archival mylar jacket. An attractive book with minimal signs of use. Book and DJ condition: Near Fine. Books are carefully packaged and quickly shipped in a box. "The incomparable Joseph Roth imagines Emperor Napoleon's last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is told from two perspectives, that of Napoleon himself and that of the lowly, devoted palace laundress Angelica?an unlucky creature who deeply loves him.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hundred Days
• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811222780
• ISBN 13: 9780811222785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Historical Novel
  • Napoleon

About this title

Synopsis

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

The incomparable Joseph Roth imagines Emperor Napoleon's last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is told from two perspectives, that of Napoleon himself and that of the lowly, devoted palace laundress Angelica―an unlucky creature who deeply loves him. In The Hundred Days, Roth refracts the deep sorrow of their intertwined fates.

Roth's signature lyrical elegance and haunting atmospheric details sing in The Hundred Days. "There may be," as James Wood has stated, "no modern writer more able to combine the novelistic and the poetic, to blend lusty, undamaged realism with sparkling powers of metaphor and simile."

About the Authors

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.

Richard Panchyk has published twenty-three books, including translations of three Joseph Roth novels: The Antichrist, The Hundred Days, and Perlefter.