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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 LezardMihály and Erzsi are on honeymoon in Italy. Mihály has recently joined the resp... Read More about Journey by Moonlight (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... Read More about The Pendragon Legend (Pushkin Press Classics)

Traveler and the Moonlight by Antal Szerb 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 Mih ly takes his new bride to Italy for their honeymo... Read More about Traveler and the Moonlight

An NYRB Classics OriginalThe trouble begins in Venice, the first stop on Erzsi and Mihály’s honeymoon tour of Italy. Here Erzsi discovers that her new husband prefers wandering back alleys on his own to her company. The trouble picks up in Ravenna, where a hostile man zooms up on a motorcycle as the... Read More about Journey by Moonlight (NYRB Classics)

The bored young ruler of an idyllic Central European country plots a coup against himself and escapes to Venice in search of 'real' experience. There he falls in with a team of ambitious con-men and ends up, to his own surprise, impersonating himself. In this wonderfully droll tale the king's journe... Read More about Oliver VII (Pushkin Collection)

In this important new volume we see the great Hungarian writer Antal Szerb at the height of his powers. Widely recognised in his native country as one of Europe's most important critics, and as the author of enduringly fascinating novels, Szerb was a leading figure in Hungarian inter-war literary li... Read More about Reflections in the Library: Selected Literary Essays 1926-1944 (Studies in Comparative Literature #46)