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Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Mihaly finally succeeds in seducing Erzsi away from her first husband, he confidently takes her on honeymoon to Italy. Within days of their arrival, things start to fall apart: Mihaly is swept back to memories of his teenage years, 'loses' his bride at a provincial station and drifts away. Embarkin ...Show more
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
A major modern classic: the turbulent story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemoia 'Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers' - Ali Smith 'A novel to love as well as admire, always playful and ironical, full of brilliant descriptions, bon mots and absu ...Show more
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
$12.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Evergreens
Travelling to Italy on their honeymoon, Erszi and Mihaly are ready to take in all the beauties and pleasures of the country. But when they reach Venice, it is clear that Mihaly prefers to roam around the back alleys and the canals on his own, and as they continue their journey through the Bel Paese ther ...Show more
Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
An NYRB Classics Original The trouble begins in Venice, the first stop on Erzsi and Mihaly'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 co ...Show more
Oliver VII by Antal Szerb
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The restless King Oliver VII of Alturia, an obscure Central European state whose only notable exports are wine and sardines, wants nothing more than an easy life: so, plotting a coup against himself, King Oliver VII escapes to Venice in search of 'real' experience. There he falls in with a team of con-m ...Show more
The Pendragon Legend by Antal Szerb
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
At a party in London, the young scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric surrounded by strange rumours, who invites him to Pendragon Castle in North Wales. At Pendragon, Batky finds himself in a bizarre world of mysticism and romance, animal experimentat ...Show more
The Queen's Necklace by Antal Szerb
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pushkin Collection
A witty and erudite love letter to a bygone age, from one of Europe's last great humanists. "A sparkling slice of eighteenth-century life" Paul Bailey, Independent In August 1785 Paris buzzed with scandal. It involved an eminent churchman, a notorious charlatan, a female fraudster, a part-time prostit ...Show more
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