Third Tower (Pushkin Collection)

by Antal Szerb

Len Rix (Editor)

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In August 1936 a Hungarian writer in his mid-thirties arrives by train in Venice, on a journey overshadowed by the coming war and charged with intense personal nostalgia. Aware that he might never again visit this land whose sites and scenes had once exercised a strange and terrifying power over his imagination, he immerses himself in a stream of discoveries, reappraisals and inevitable self-revelations. From Venice, he traces the route taken by the Germanic invaders of old down to Ravenna, to stand, fulfilling a lifelong dream, before the sacred mosaics of San Vitale.

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  • ISBN10 1306946239
  • ISBN13 9781306946230
  • Publish Date 15 July 2014 (first published 27 March 2014)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 1 April 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Pushkin Press
  • Format eBook
  • Language English