Iron Gustav : a Berlin family chronicle /
By: Fallada, Hans.
Contributor(s): Owens, Philip [translator.] | Jacobs, Nicholas [translator.] | Laue, Gardis Cramer von [translator.].
Series: Penguin modern classics.Publisher: London : Penguin Books, [2014]Description: xx, 586 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141196534 (pbk.); 9780141196534:; 014119653X (pbk.).Subject(s): Hartmann, Gustav, 1859-1938 -- Fiction | Fiction -- German authors -- 20th century | Berlin (Germany) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- FictionDDC classification: 833.914Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 833.914 FAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0092033 |
Foreword / Jenny Williams -- Not on the translation / Nicholas Jacobs -- [Part] one : the good days of peace -- [Part] two : war breaks out -- [Part] three : the evil days -- [Part] four : peace breaks out -- [Part] five : Tinette -- [Part] six : the old cabby -- [Part] seven : work and no work -- [Part] eight : the journey to Paris -- The last chapter : the beer glass.
Gustav Hackendahl's will is law. Known as Iron Gustav, he runs his family and his Berlin carriage business with stern, unyielding discipline. But his children have wills of their own, and soon they slip from his control - some to better lives, some towards disaster. As war breaks out and Gustav's beloved Germany is devastated by hardship and violence, he finds everything he believes in destroyed. Can the man of iron endure, or even change?
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