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The Unknown Quantity

The Unknown Quantity

The Unknown Quantity
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The Unknown Quantity Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition

by Hermann Broch; Willa Muir (Translator); Edwin Muir (Translator)

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  • Title The Unknown Quantity
  • Author Hermann Broch; Willa Muir (Translator); Edwin Muir (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 204
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Marlboro Press, Evanston, IL
  • Publication date December 27, 2000
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # DX5-01071
  • ISBN 9780810160828 / 081016082X
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.45 x 5.47 x 0.61 in (21.46 x 13.89 x 1.55 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00062466
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Mild and sensitive Richard Hieck endured a quietly difficult childhood in Germany. But from his father Richard inherited an interest in the night sky, learning to love the constellations and to take comfort in the strength of Orion and the warm radiance of Venus. His choice to pursue mathematics offers him the discipline he craved as a child.

Published in 1933, The Unknown Quantity is Hermann Broch's study of the underlying chaos-and finally the impossibility-of life within a society whose values are in decay. As Richard seeks to reconcile the conflicting demands of love and science, of passion and reason, societal and family values begin to undermine him and those in orbit around him.

About the author

Hermann Broch (November 1, 1886 - May 30, 1951) was a 20th century Austrian writer, considered one of the major Modernists.

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