The Pendragon Legend - Antal Szerb

The Pendragon Legend by Antal Szerb, translated by Len Rix / ISBN 9781901285895 / 236-page paperback from Pushkin Press (I read this 15 years and always think of it fondly - I hadn't expected it to be so pulpy!) *** "An absolute treat, deliciously ludic, to be read with a big smile on your face throughout."—Nicholas Lezard, Guardian "May Szerb's entry into our literary pantheon be definitive." - Alberto Manguel At the end-of-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 rumours. Invited to the family seat, Pendragon Castle in North Wales, Batky receives a mysterious phone-call warning him not to go. But he does, and finds himself in 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. "Szerb was