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While visiting a Welsh castle, a young scholar finds himself at the center of occult rituals and a murder mystery in this "absolute treat" of a gothic detective story (The Guardian) At an end-of-the 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 rumors. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Batky receives a...

The Queen's Necklace was first published as A Kiraalynae Nyaklaanca in Hungary, 1942"--Title page verso.

A typically brilliant, ironic and moving travelogue by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers

Offers a selection of the author's stories and novellas, set variously in mythical times and in the London and Paris of the twenties and thirties, that reflects his love of life.

A new edition of Szerb's selection of short stories and novellas. The stories are set both in mythical times, and in 1920s and 1930s London and Paris, reflecting Szerb's love of life and his irrepressible irony.

A comic fable from one of the masters of twentieth-century prose

Antal Szerb's early 20th century classic deals with the eternally modern themes of convention and revolution, rationality and passion, cut through by death and sex.

A witty reworking of one of the most interesting questions of existentialism, 'what is the Self?', Antal Szerb's Oliver VII is a playful work of comic philosophy.

FICTION / Fantasy / General

A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight (Utas es Holdvilag) is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty and desire.

At an end-of-the 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.

Anxious to please his father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy, Mihaly 'loses' his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic journey.