Antal Szerb

The Pendragon Legend

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An absolute treat, deliciously ludic, to be read with a big smile on your face throughout.-Nicholas Lezard, Guardian AT THE END-OF-LONDON-SEASON soiree, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumours. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Batky receives a mysterious phone-call warning him not to go. But he does, and finds himself in a bizarre world of mysticism and romance, animal experimentation, and planned murder. His quest to solve the central mystery takes him down strange byways-old libraries and warehouse cellar… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Rix, Len (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-906548-52-0
EAN: 9781906548520
Produktnummer: 13882714
Verlag: Pushkin Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 352 KB

Über den Autor

ANTAL SZERB was born in 1901 into a cultivated Budapest family of Jewish descent. Graduating in German and English, he rapidly established himself as a prolific scholar, publishing books on drama and poetry, studies of Ibsen and Blake, and histories of English, Hungarian, and world literature. His first novel, The Pendragon Legend, 1934, is set in London and Wales. Journey by MoonlightThe Queen's Necklace and various volumes of novellas. He died in the forced-labour camp at Balf in January 1945.