With this wonderful set of books to treasure, Pushkin Press celebrates the very best work by the great Hungarian writer Antal Szerb (1901 - 1945). His sharp intelligence and sparkling wit are evident in everything he wrote, where the deepest meditations on the human condition are carried within darkly amusing tales. In this collection, Szerb's ideas about identity, history, art and society are shown to be as vitally important today as they were when first written.