The Pendragon Legend

'May Szerb's entry into our literary pantheon be definitive' - Alberto Manguel

'A writer of immense subtlety and generosity... Can literary mastery be this quiet-seeming, this hilarious, this kind? Antal Szerb is one of the great European writers' - Ali Smith

'Szerb is a master novelist whose powers transcend time and language' - Nicholas Lezard

'Szerb was fluent in German and English and greatly interested in unusual religious beliefs. His knowledge of Rosicrucianism and the occult informs this often very funny book, which takes many affectionate potshots at the period's popular fiction. Szerb, who produced a history of English literature, knew his Shakespeare, Blake and Milton, but also the frothier writings of John Buchan, Edgar Wallace and P G Wodehouse' - Paul Bailey

'An academic jeu d'esprit.... with teasing pastiches of John Cowper Powys, P. G. Wodehouse... and the early, comic fiction of Aldous Huxley' - Sam Sacks