Leo Perutz, Author Arcade Publishing $19.95 (181p) ISBN 978-1-55970-170-9
Written in the style of an 18th-century adventure, Perutz's leisurely tale of switched identities and reversals of fortune concerns a nameless thief fleeing the gallows who crosses paths in 1701 with a noble-born deserter from the Swedish army. The...
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Leo Perutz, Author Arcade Publishing $17.95 (182p) ISBN 978-1-55970-015-3
This 1960 novel by the late Czech emigre writer purports to be the memoirs of Eduard von Jochberg, the sole survivor of a bloody massacre in 1812, during the Peninsular War. Von Jochberg is garrisoned with a German unit of Napoleon's army in a small
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Leo Perutz, Author Arcade Publishing $17.95 (198p) ISBN 978-1-55970-055-9
First published in 1953, this magical historical novel ostensibly describes the series of events which led to Bohemia's defeat by Austria at the Battle of the White Mountain in the 16th century. But the Czech emigre author ( Leonardo's Judas ) was...
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Leo Perutz, Author, Eric Mosbacher, Translator Arcade Publishing $19.95 (148p) ISBN 978-1-55970-171-6
Perutz was born in Prague, lived in Vienna and fled the Nazis to Israel, where he died in 1957. His work, which Arcade has been issuing in translation at intervals, has been admired by such writers as Ian Fleming, Graham Greene and Jorge Luis Borges.
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Leo Perutz, Author, Eric Mosbacher, Translator Arcade Publishing $16.45 (154p) ISBN 978-1-55970-002-3
Inaugurating the fiction line of this new imprint, this spare but evocative novel marks the first of the Czech author's works to be introduced here. His 11th book, it was completed in 1957 shortly before his death. Set in Milan in 1498, it describes
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