Oliver VII

Informationen zum Autor Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901. Though of Jewish descent! he was baptised at an early age and remained a lifelong Catholic. He rapidly established himself as a formidable scholar! through studies of Ibsen and Blake and histories of English! Hungarian and world literature. He was a prolific essayist and reviewer! ranging across all the major European languages. Debarred by successive Jewish laws from working in a university! he was subjected to increasing persecution! and finally murdered in a forced labour camp in 1945. Pushkin Press publishes his novels The Pendragon Legend ! Oliver VII and his masterpiece Journey by Moonlight ! as well as the historical study The Queen's Necklace and Love in a Bottle and Other Stories . Klappentext A comic fable from one of the masters of twentieth-century prose "Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the twentieth century" Paul Bailey, "Daily Telegraph" A comic fable from one of the masters of twentieth-century prose Zusammenfassung A comic fable from one of the masters of twentieth-century prose

Product details

• Authors: Szerb Antal, Antal Szerb, Antal (Author) Szerb
• Assisted by: Len Rix (Translation), Len (Translator) Rix (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.06.2013
• EAN: 9781908968395
• ISBN: 978-1-908968-39-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Pushkin Collection; Pushkin Collection
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature