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Author | : Miklos Banffy |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 842 |
Release | : 2013-07-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375712305 |
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**Washington Post Best Books of 2013** The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Miklós Bánffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism in Hungary, Bánffy’s novels were translated in the late 1990s to critical acclaim and appear here for the first time in hardcover. They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided, the second and third novels in the trilogy, continue the story of the two aristocratic cousins introduced in They Were Counted as they navigate a dissolute society teetering on the brink of catastrophe. Count Balint Abády, a liberal politician who defends his homeland’s downtrodden Romanian peasants, loses his beautiful lover, Adrienne, who is married to a sinister and dangerously insane man, while his cousin László loses himself in reckless and self-destructive addictions. Meanwhile, no one seems to notice the gathering clouds that are threatening the Austro-Hungarian Empire and that will soon lead to the brutal dismemberment of their country. Set amid magnificent scenery of wild forests, snowcapped mountains, and ancient castles, THE TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY combines a Proustian nostalgia for a lost world, insight into a collapsing empire reminiscent of the work of Joseph Roth, and the drama and epic sweep of Tolstoy.
Author | : Miklós Bánffy |
Publisher | : Writing on the Wall: The Trans |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781906413781 |
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'They Were Divided' reflects the disintegrating course of events in central Europe. The sinister, fast moving events lead to the youth of Hungary marching off not only to their death on the field of battle, but to the dismemberment of their country."
Author | : Miklos Banffy |
Publisher | : writing on the wall |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Historical fiction |
ISBN | : 9781910050910 |
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Hungarian Classic and winner of the 2002 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, now re-edited and re-jacketed
Author | : Miklos Banffy |
Publisher | : Everyman's Library |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 2013-07-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375712291 |
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**Washington Post Best Books of 2013** The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Miklós Bánffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism in Hungary, Bánffy’s novels were translated in the late 1990s to critical acclaim and now appear for the first time in hardcover. They Were Counted, the first novel in the trilogy, introduces us to a decadent, frivolous, and corrupt society unwittingly bent on its own destruction during the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Bánffy’s lush depiction of an opulent lost paradise focuses on two upper-class cousins who couldn’t be more different: Count Balint Abády, a liberal politician who compassionately defends his homeland’s downtrodden Romanian peasants, and his dissipated cousin László, whose life is a whirl of parties, balls, hunting, and gambling. They Were Counted launches a story that brims with intrigues, love affairs, duels, murder, comedy, and tragedy, set against the rugged and ravishing scenery of Transylvania. Along with the other two novels in the trilogy—They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided—it combines a Proustian nostalgia for the past, insight into a collapsing empire reminiscent of the work of Joseph Roth, and the drama and epic sweep of Tolstoy.
Author | : Marguerite Duras |
Publisher | : Archipelago |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 2011-03-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1935744224 |
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Dedicated to Duras’ companion with whom she spent her last decade of life, Yann Andréa Steiner is a haunting dance between two parallel stories of love and solitude: the love between Duras and the young Yann Andréa and a seaside romance observed – or imagined – by the narrator between a camp counselor and an orphaned camper, a Holocaust survivor who witnessed his sister’s murder at the hands of a German soldier. Memory blurs into desire as the summer of 1980 flows into 1944. An enigmatic elegy of history, creation, and raw emotion.
Author | : Adam-Troy Castro |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2013-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0698159306 |
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In Gustav Gloom and the Four Terrors, things are not always what they seem in the Gloom Mansion. Gustav decides that he needs to rescue his father from the Dark Country, but he can’t do that without Fernie’s help. After Gustav convinces Fernie’s safety-conscious father to enter the Gloom Mansion with Fernie and Pearlie, there is a prison break from the Hall of Shadow Criminals and it’s up to Fernie to save her family and Gustav before it’s too late. Featuring a unique paper-over-board cover, a die-cut window with printed acetate, and beautifully dark full-page illustrations by Kristen Margiotta.
Author | : Miklós Bánffy |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 804 |
Release | : 2009-07-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1908129026 |
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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 JENKINS An extraordinary portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, this epic story is told through the eyes of two cousins, Count Balint Abady and Count Laszlo Gyeroffy. 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 becomes aware of the plight of a group of Romanian mountain peasants and champions their cause, while Gyeroffy dissipates his resources at the gaming tables, mirroring the decline of the Austro-Hungarian empire itself. This is the first volume Banffy's trilogy, which continues with They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided. It was rediscovered for an international readership after the fall of communism in Hungary. With a Foreword by Patrick Leigh-Fermor and translated from Hungarian by Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Banffy-Jelen WINNER OF THE WEIDENFELD TRANSLATION PRIZE
Author | : Gregg Akkerman |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2012-06-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0810882817 |
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In The Last Balladeer, author Gregg Akkerman skillfully reveals the life-long achievements and occasional missteps of Johnny Hartman as an African-American artist dedicated to his craft. In the first full-length biography and discography to chronicle the rhapsodic life and music of Johnny Hartman, the author completes a previously missing dimension of vocal-jazz history by documenting Hartman as the balladeer who crooned his way into so many hearts. Backed by impeccable research but conveyed in a conversational style, this book will interest not only musicians and scholars but any fan of the Great American Songbook and the singers who brought it to life.
Author | : Murray Stein |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781585444496 |
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In Transformation: Emergence of the Self, noted analyst and author Murray Stein explains what this process is and what it means for an individual to experience it. Transformation usually occurs at midlife but is much more complicated than what we colloquially call a midlife crisis. Consciously working through this life stage can lead people to become who they have always potentially been. Indeed, Stein suggests, transformation is the essential human task.
Author | : Irmtraud Morgner |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780803232037 |
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Beatrice awakens after an eight-hundred-year sleep and travels throughout East Germany with the help of socialist trolley driver Laura Salman.