BARON BAGGE

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin BooksBaron Bagge a cavalry officer during the First World War receives orders from his unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death he and his brigade pass unscathed into a peaceful otherworldly country where festivities are in full swing… Alexander Lernet-Holenia championed in his lifetime by Roberto Calasso Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke triumphs in this dreamlike novel of mystery and yearning.