Weights and Measures

Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one''br>br>At his wife''s insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery officer Anselm Eibenschutz leaves his beloved Austro-Hungarian army and takes up a civilian post, as Inspector of Weights and Measures in a remote backwater near the Russian border. At first he does everything by the book, but gradually he finds himself adrift in a world of petty corruption, bribery and drunkenness - and undone by his passion for the beautiful gypsy Euphemia. A haunting evocation of Eastern Europe''s borderlands in the early twentieth century, Weights and Measures is also the story of the disintegration of a good man.br>br>Translated by David Le Vay>

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Roth
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.10.2017
• EAN: 9780241307441
• ISBN: 978-0-241-30744-1
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction: general and literary