Skylark

Dezső Kosztolányi

Original title: Pacsirta

earliest edition we have, 1985 Chatto & Windus, 1993 224 pages

Central European classics

"An acknowledged masterpiece of twentieth-century Hungarian fiction, Dezso Kosztolanyi's Skylark is a classic portrait of provincial life in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy at the turn of the century. Set in the autumn of 1899, it focuses on one extraordinary week in the otherwise uneventful lives of an elderly Hungarian couple."--BOOK JACKET. "Their ugly spinster daughter - nicknamed Skylark - has left them for an unp...

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Editions we hold

Skylark edition · 2010 · New York Review Books · 222 pages · 9781590173398
Pacsirta edition · 2003 · Europa Diakkonyvtar · 404 pages
Skylark edition · 1999 · Central European University Press · 222 pages · 9789639116665
Skylark edition · 1996 · Central European University Press · 224 pages
Skylark edition · 1993 · Chatto & Windus · 224 pages
Pacsirta edition · 1985 · Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó · 180 pages

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