The Pendragon Legend
Author(s): Antal Szerb
At a party in London, the young scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric surrounded by strange rumours, who invites him to Pendragon Castle in North Wales. At Pendragon, Batky finds himself in a bizarre world of mysticism and romance, animal experimentation and murderous plans, old libraries, cellars, Welsh mountains and underground tombs.
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Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901. Though of Jewish descent, he was baptised at an early age and remained a lifelong Catholic. He rapidly established himself as a formidable scholar, through studies of Ibsen and Blake and histories of English, Hungarian and world literature. He was a prolific essayist and reviewer, ranging across all the major European languages. Debarred by successive Jewish laws from working in a university, he was subjected to increasing persecution, and finally murdered in a forced labour camp in 1945. Pushkin Press publishes his novels The Pendragon Legend, Oliver VII and his masterpiece Journey by Moonlight, as well as the historical study The Queen's Necklace and Love in a Bottle and Other Stories.
General Fields
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- : Pushkin Press
- : 01 June 2013
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Antal Szerb
- : Paperback
- : 2nd Revised edition
- : 894.511332
- : 240