
They Were Divided
Miklos Banffy(Author)
Arcadia Books (Publisher)
Published on 7. October 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-906413-78-1 (ISBN)
Description
In the foreground the lives of Balint, with his ultimately unhappy love for Adrienne, and his fatally flawed cousin, Laszlo Gyeroffy, who dies in poverty and neglect, are told with humour and a bitter-sweet nostalgia for a paradise lost through folly. The sinister and fast moving events in Montenegro, the Balkan wars, the apparent encirclement of Germany and Austria-Hungary by Britain, France and Russia, and finally the assassination of Franz Ferdinand all lead inexorably to the youth of Hungary marching off to their death and the dismemberment of their country.
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"A masterpiece. This very readable translation makes a wonderful book accessible to many more people" - New Statesman"A genuine case of a rediscovered classic" Times Literary SupplementMore details
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English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quercus Publishing
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frontispiece
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Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
290 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906413-78-1 (9781906413781)
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Miklos Banffy (1873-1950) was variously a diplomat, MP and foreign minister in 1921/22 when he signed the peace treaty with the United States and obtained Hungary's admission to the League of Nations. He was responsible for organizing the last Habsburg coronation, that of King Karl in 1916. His famous Transylvanian Trilogy, They Were Counted, They Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided was first published in Budapest in the 1930s.
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