Love in a Bottle (21 page)
Authors: Antal Szerb
1943
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Original text © Estate of Antal Szerb
English translation © Len Rix 2010, 2013
First published in Hungarian as
Szerelem a palackban
in 1963
This translation first published by Pushkin Press in 2010 This edition, with a revised introduction and additional material (“Cynthia” and “A Garden Party in St Cloud”), first published by Pushkin Press in 2013
ISBN 978 1 906548 51 3
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