The Third Tower by Antal Szerb
A typically brilliant, ironic and moving travelogue by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers-
Montaigne
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Burning Secret
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The Pendragon Legend
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The Man who Walked Through Walls
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Confusion
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The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
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The Cake Tree in the Ruins
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The Captain's Daughter
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Journey by Moonlight
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Of Sunshine and Bedbugs
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Red Cavalry
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Where All Good Flappers Go
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The Queen of Spades and Selected Works
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A Nail, A Rose
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The Beauties
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Poems to Night
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Glimpses of the Moon
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I Was Jack Mortimer
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Every Day is To-Day
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City of Lions
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England Your England
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Oliver VII
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Amok and other Stories
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Yevgeny Onegin
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The Other Sleep
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The New Sorrows of Young W.
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The Coral Merchant
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In the Beginning Was the Sea
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Isolde
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Casanova's Return to Venice
A writer of immense subtlety and generosity, with an uncommonly light touch which masks its own artistryHis novels transform farce into poetry, comic melancholy into a kind of self-effacing grace... Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers -- Ali Smith Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the 20th century -- Paul Bailey Daily Telegraph Szerb is a master novelist whose powers transcend time and language -- Nicholas Lezard Guardian [L]ovely little volume... by turns poetic, nostalgic, melancholy and personal. New Statesman Perfect... sensitive and intellectual New Welsh Review The prose is intimate and disarming... While nominally it is an account of Szerb's solitary travels... what elevates it is Szerb's ability to not only describe the physical landscape but the mental Publishers Weekly This is travelogue as philosophical meditation -- Eileen Battersby Irish Times (Books of the Year)
Antal Szerb was born in Budapest in 1901. Best known in the West as a novelist and short story writer, he was also a prolific scholar whose interests ranged widely across the whole field of European literature. Debarred from a university post by reason of his Jewish ancestry, he taught in a commercial secondary school until increas- ing persecution led to his brutal death in a labour camp, in 1945. Yet the tone of his writing is almost always deceptively light, the fierce intelligence softened by a gentle tolerance, wry humour and understated irony. Pushkin Press's publications of Szerb's work include his novels Journey by Moonlight, Oliver VII and The Pendragon Legend, as well as the short story collection Love in a Bottle and the history The Queen's Necklace.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781782270539 |
| ISBN 10 | 1782270531 |
| Title | The Third Tower |
| Author | Antal Szerb |
| Series | Pushkin Collection |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2014-03-27 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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