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 ...
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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.
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Good. No Jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. First American Edition. The date on the copyright page is 1935, with a statement Published in May 1935. The date on the title page is MCMXXXV (1935). The pages are in very good condition with no markings or stains in the text. The cover is blue grey cloth with a black paste on with the title surrounded by a circle of stars. There is some light red staining on the lower half of the front cover. The top of the spine has a light lean. Overall a very nice solid book.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. First American edition. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with two tiny nicks and a little age-toning. Broch's second book to be published in the U.S. This copy nicely Inscribed by the author to the long-time film critic at the New York *Herald Tribune*: "For Thomas Curtiss in friendship H.B., N.Y. May '39." The jacket design is by George Salter, one of the first covers Salter designed in the United States (Hansen. *Classic Book Jackets*).
