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"Roth was fond of peasants, rogues and gentlemen....But Roth was just as good at other types: farmers, bourgeois arrivistes, spoilt rich young men, silly, seducible young shop girls, Jewish conmen, Jewish innkeepers, and wise Jewish villagers....Roth was not particularly good at organizing plots. On the other hand, his descriptions of nature and of townscapes are lyrical and melancholy with nostalgia for the past and the place he has left."Roth, Joseph is the author of 'Collected Stories of Joseph Roth' with ISBN 9780393043204 and ISBN 0393043207.
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