Antal Szerb

"An absolute treat... Szerb is a master novelist, a comedian whose powers transcend time and language" - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian At an end-of-season London soirée, a young Hungarian scholar, Dr. Janos Bátky, 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, Bátky...

A major modern classic: the turbulent story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemia. Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers - Ali Smith A novel to love as well as admire, always playful and ironical, full of brilliant descriptions, bon mots and absurd situations - The Guardian Mihály and Erzsi are on honeymoon in...