{"product_id":"the-pendragon-legend-9781805330660","title":"The Pendragon Legend","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Antal Szerb\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Pushkin Press Classics\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Gothic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Pushkin Press Classics","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45045146321047,"sku":"9781805330660","price":455.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781805330660.webp?v=1769216079","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-pendragon-legend-9781805330660","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}