Description
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.
| EAN: | 9781805330660 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 27.06.2024 |
| Titel der Reihe: | Pushkin Classics## |
| Autoren: | Szerb, Antal |
| Übersetzung: | Rix, Len |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 234 |
| Fachschema: | Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Ungarische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Biografischer Roman~Liebesromane |
| Länge: | 196 mm |
| Breite: | 127 mm |
| Höhe: | 20 mm |