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  • Journey by Moonlight

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Czipott, Peter ...
    Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihaly are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But when they reach Venice, it is clear that Mihaly prefers to roam around the back alleys and the canals on his own, and as they continue their journey through the Bel Paese there is a growing sense of unrest between them, until Mihaly misses the train to Rome they were due ... Read more

    $3.88 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Pendragon Legend

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    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, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Journey by Moonlight

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **An early-twentieth-century classic — the turbulent, dreamlike story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemia“No one who has read it has failed to love it.” — Nicholas Lezard**Mihály and Erzsi are on honeymoon in Italy. Mihály has recently joined the respectable family firm in Budapest, but as his gaze passes over the mysterious back-alleys of Venice, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Oliver VII

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    The restless King Oliver VII of Alturia, an obscure Central European state whose only notable exports are wine and sardines, wants nothing more than an easy life: so, plotting a coup against himself, King Oliver VII escapes to Venice in search of ‘real’ experience. There he falls in with a team of con-men and ends up, to his own surprise, impersonating himself. His journey through successive ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Journey by Moonlight

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb (1937-1945) and translated from the Hungarian by Peter Hargitai recounts the misadventures of a closeted intellectual forced to fit into a life of conventional morality and its notions of manhood. Thirty-six-year-old Mihály takes his new bride to Italy for their honeymoon, where chance separates them, and he finds himself on the run from his marriage. Wandering ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Third Tower

    Journeys in Italy

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed by the coming war and charged with intense personal nostalgia. Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites and scenes had once exercised a strange and terrifying power over his imagination, he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries, reappraisals and inevitable self ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Queen's Necklace

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    In August 1785, Paris buzzed with a scandal that had everything—an eminent churchman, a female fraudster, a part-time prostitute and the hated Queen herself. Its centrepiece was the most expensive diamond necklace ever assembled, and the tangle of fraud, folly, blindness and self-delusion it provoked. The humiliation the affair brought on the royal family contributed to their appalling deaths in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Love in a Bottle and Other Stories

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Hungarian Antal Szerb is best known in the West as the author of three extraordinary novels, most notably Journey by Moonlight (1937), and a highly entertaining study of the Ancient Regime in France, The Queen's Necklace (1942). This selection of his stories and novellas, set variously in mythical times and in the London and Paris of the twenties and thirties, reflects his love of life and the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Journey by Moonlight

    by Antal Szerb ...
    Narrated by Johny Pitts ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 12 min

    A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty and desire.'On the train, everything seemed fine. The trouble began in Venice ...'Mihály has dreamt of Italy all his life. When he finally travels there, on his honeymoon with Erszi, he soon abandon his new wife in order to find ... Read more

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