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Joseph Roth was born in 1894 into a Jewish family living in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and now split between Poland and Ukraine. He became a successful journalist and travelled widely, eventually becoming best-known for his novels The Radetzky March (also in Penguin Modern Classics), The Emperor's Tomb and The Legend of the Holy Drinker . He died in Paris in 1939.
This small novel is a masterpiece -- Angela Huth * Listener * Weights and Measures gave me the purest reading pleasure... A haunting little book, touched by genius * Guardian * A masterly performance -- Paul Bailey * Evening Standard * An absorbing fable, dark, beautifully written and with a physical immediacy in the prose... I want to read more * New Statesman * Written with the melancholy wit and grace of Gogol... passages of electrifying beauty * The Times *
