Love in a Bottle (Pushkin Collection)

Szerb, Antal

ISBN 10: 1906548285 ISBN 13: 9781906548285
Verlag: Pushkin Collection, 2010
Gebraucht Softcover

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This collection of Antal Szerb's stories and novellas, set variously in mythical times and in the London and Paris of the Twenties and Thirties, displays his irrepressible love of life and reflects the subtle irony and gentle wit that are Szerb's trademark.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Antal Szerb was born into a cultured family of Jewish descent in 1901. He graduated in German, English and Hungarian, and rapidly established himself as a formidable scholar, publishing books on drama and poetry, studies of Blake and Ibsen, and Histories of English, Hungarian and World Literature. In 1933 he was elected president of the Hungarian Literary Academy He was also known as an essayist, playwright and as the author of various novellas and historical fiction.

He died in a labour camp in 1945.

Antal Szerb (1901?1945) was an essayist, a novelist, a playwright, and a formidable scholar whose books include Journey by Moonlight, Oliver VII, The Pendragon Legend, and The Traveler. He was twice awarded the Baumgarten Prize and in 1933 he was elected president of the Hungarian Literary Academy. Ali Smith is the author of The Accidental and Hotel WorldLen Rix also translated Journey by Moonlight, Oliver VII, and The Pendragon Legend, and received the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize for his translation of The Door.


Antal Szerb was born in 1901 into a cultivated Budapest family of Jewish descent. Graduating in German and English, he rapidly established himself as a prolific scholar, publishing books on drama and poetry, studies of Ibsen and Blake, and histories of English, Hungarian, and world literature. His first novel, The Pendragon Legend, 1934, is set in London and Wales. He is also the author of Journey by Moonlight, The Queen's Necklace, Oliver VII and various volumes of novellas. He died in the forced-labour camp at Balf in January 1945.

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Titel: Love in a Bottle (Pushkin Collection)
Verlag: Pushkin Collection
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very Good
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