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They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided
The Transylvania Trilogy Vol. 2
Inbunden, 2013
246 kr
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The liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he lyrically describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of Hungarian Transylvania, later to fall into the hands of first the Nazis and then the Communists, his love for Adrienne, married to an unpleasant and dangerous lunatic, and …
They Were Divided
The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume III
Häftad, 2024
169 kr
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"Perfect late night reading" JAN MORRIS"Banffy is a born storyteller" PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR"Totally absorbing" MARTHA KEARNEY"So evocative" SIMON JENKINSThe final volume of Miklos Bánffy's panoramic trilogy of the dying years of the Habsburg empire.They Were Divided reflects the rapidly …
The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volumes II & III: They Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided; Introduction by Patrick Thursfield
Inbunden, 2013
406 kr
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They Were Counted
The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume I
Häftad, 2024
184 kr
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"Perfect late night reading" JAN MORRIS"Bánffy is a born storyteller" PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR"Totally absorbing" MARTHA KEARNEY"So evocative" SIMON JENKINSAn extraordinary portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, They Were Counted is an epic story told through the eyes of two cousins, Count …
They Were Found Wanting
The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume II
Häftad, 2024
184 kr
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"Perfect late night reading" JAN MORRIS"Banffy is a born storyteller" PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR"Totally absorbing" MARTHA KEARNEY"So evocative" SIMON JENKINSThe second volume of Miklos Banffy's panoramic trilogy of the dying years of the Habsburg empire. The tale of two Transylvanian cousins, their …
Enchanted Night
Selected Tales
Häftad, 2020
166 kr
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'The Tolstoy of Transylvania... Bánffy's trilogy is just about as good as any fiction I have ever read' - Charles Moore, Telegraph 'The elegiac wisdom of his writing makes him one of those people whose life you wish could have ended in something other than calamity... a great storyteller' - …
Remarkable Mrs ANDERSON
Häftad, 2021
191 kr
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When a priceless Leonardo is stolen from the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, the Hungarian government tries to hush things up and the police show themselves to be completely clueless. Thank goodness for Milla Anderson!A gifted reporter for one of Budapest's daily newspapers, she picks up the trail in …
MONKEY and other stories
Häftad, 2021
191 kr
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Born in Transylvania in the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Miklos Banffy lived to witness both the zenith of that Empire and its fall. The short stories in this collection, from the tale of the idle young man dawdling pleasantly in Venice to the Romanian villager meditating revenge on his …
They were counted.The Transylvania Trilogy. Vol 1.
Inbunden, 2013
229 kr
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Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament and the luxury life in Budapest provide the backdrop for this gripping, prescient novel, forming a chilling indictment of upper-class frivolity and political folly, in which good manners cloak indifference and brutality. Abady …
Phoenix Land
Häftad, 2011
118 kr
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The 1000-year-old kingdom of Hungary, which formed a major part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, was dismembered by the Allies in 1918. Phoenix-like, the Hungarian people survived the horrors of war, the disappointment of the first socialist republic, the disillusion of the brief but terrifying rule …
