The Pendragon Legend

The Pendragon Legend
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Publisher : Pushkin Press Classics
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781805330660
ISBN-13 : 1805330667
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Book Synopsis The Pendragon Legend by : Antal Szerb

Download or read book The Pendragon Legend written by Antal Szerb and published by Pushkin Press Classics. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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