Hungary's hidden classics, newly in English.
Krúdy's wandering Sinbad, Mikszáth's old scoundrel and his dead hero who climbs out of the grave, Ambrus's painter ruined by money, a detective novel, a 1919 vision of the twenty-first century and the Budapest of cafés, foundries and villas. 334 books, almost all in English for the first time.
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