{"product_id":"pendragon-legend","title":"Pendragon Legend","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePendragon Legend\u003c\/h1\u003eAntal Szerb\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pushkin Press Classics\u003cbr\u003eNovember 5 2024\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781805330660\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1805330667\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cb\u003eWhile 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 (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Pendragon Legend\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67392407175213,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_ba37e5b1-6775-45e2-b203-50ede881d991.jpg?v=1787362779","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/pendragon-legend","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}