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  • The Door

    by Magda Szabo ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015"An NYRB Classics OriginalThe Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship to Hungary’s Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Abigail

    by Magda Szabo ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    From the author of The Door, a beloved coming-of-age tale set in WWII-era Hungary.Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó’s books in her native Hungary. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been happy to spoil his bright and willful daughter. Gina is devastated when the general tells her that he must go ... Read more

    $11.99 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

  • Katalin Street

    by Magda Szabo ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    **FINALIST FOR THE 2017 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZEFrom the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budapest during World War II.**In prewar Budapest three families live side by side on gracious Katalin Street, their lives closely intertwined. A game is ... Read more

    $9.99 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

  • The Fawn

    Translated by Len Rix ...
    by Magda Szabó ...
    From the author of The Door and Abigail and for fans of Elena Ferrante and Clarice Lispector, a newly translated novel about a theater star who is forced to reckon with her painful and tragic past.In The Door, in Iza’s Ballad, and in Abigail, Magda Szabó describes the complex relationships between women of different ages and backgrounds with an astute and unsparing eye. Eszter, the narrator and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 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 Enchanted Night

    Selected Tales

    by Miklos Banffy ...
    Translated by Len Rix ...
    Transporting stories of intrigue, superstition and rivalry from a European master, in English for the first timeIn this stark, haunting collection, Miklós Bánffy narrates with wry wisdom stories of cunning, betrayal and myth ranging from classical antiquity to the Transylvania of his own day. These are communities of sharp rivalries and religious superstition: young Borbálka, about to marry an ... Read more

    $13.99 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

  • 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

  • Audiobook

    Abigail

    by Magda Szabó ...
    Narrated by Samantha Desz ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 12 min

    From the author of The Door, a beloved coming-of-age tale set in WWII-era Hungary.Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó's books in her native Hungary. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been happy to spoil his bright and willful daughter. Gina is devastated when the general tells her that he must go ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 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