The Hotel Years · Wanderings in Europe Between the Wars by Roth, Joseph -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Contents Map Introduction Envoi

1: A Man Reads the Paper

Part I: Germany

2: Of Dogs and Men 3: Millionaire for an Hour 4: The Umbrella 5: The Emigrants’ Ship 6: The Currency-Reformed City 7: Baltic Tour 8: Melancholy of a Tram Car in the Ruhr 9: Smoke Joins up the Towns 10: Germany in Winter 11: Retrospect of Magdeburg

Part II: Sketches

12: The Fraternity Member 13: Guillaume the Blond Negro 14: Adventurers 15: The Mother 16: Rose Gentschow 17: Two Gypsy Girls 18: Grock 19: The Dapper Traveller

Part III: Austria and Elsewhere

20: Bruck and Kiralyhida 21: Journey through Galicia: People and Place 22: The Polish California 23: Hotel Kopriva 24: The All-Powerful Police 25: Where the World War Began 26: The Opened Tomb 27: His K. and K.* Apostolic Majesty

Part IV: USSR

28: The Czarist Émigrés 29: The Border at Niegoreloye 30: Down the Volga to Astrakhan 31: The Wonders of Astrakhan 32: Saint Petroleum

Part V: Albania

33: A Meeting with President Ahmed Zogu 34: Arrival in Albania 35: Tirana, the Capital City 36: The Albanian Army 37: Western Visitors in Barbaria 38: Article about Albania (Written on a Hot Day)

Part VI: Hotels

39: Arrival in the Hotel 40: The Chief Receptionist 41: The Old Waiter 42: The Cook in his Kitchen 43: “Madame Annette” 44: The Patron 45: Leaving the Hotel 46: The Hotel

Part VII: Pleasures and Pains

47: Spring 48: People in Glass Cages 49: People on Sunday 50: The Office 51: The Destruction of a Café 52: Music in the Volksgarten 53: The Strange City 54: Travel 55: The “Romance” of Travel 56: The Lady in the Compartment 57: Morning at the Junction

Part VIII: Ending

58: The Old Poet Dies 59: The Third Reich, a Dependency of Hell on Earth 60: Far from the Native Turf 61: Grillparzer:* A Portrait 62: The Bitter Bread 63: Furlough in Jablonovka

Coda

64: Cradle

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