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The Pendragon Legend

Name: The Pendragon Legend
Brand: Pushkin Press Classics
SKU: 9781805330660-PRUSDTR
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Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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272 pages • 12.93 x 19.71 x 1.8 cm

Approx. weight: 0.21 kg

Publication date: 05 Nov,2024

Barcode/ ISBN: 9781805330660 • Pushkin Press Classics

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By: Antal Szerb | Series: Pushkin Press Classics

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 mysterious phone-call warning him not to go. But go he does, plunging him into 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 cellars, Welsh mountains and underground tombs.

The Pendragon Legend is Antal Szerb's first novel and is a gently satirical blend of gothic and romantic genres, crossed with the murder mystery format to produce a fast-moving and often hilarious romp. But beneath the surface, the reader becomes aware of a steely intelligence probing moral, psychological, and religious questions.