They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided
The Transylvania Trilogy Vol. 2
$81.07
- Hardcover
800 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2013
Summary
Banffy’s extraordinary novel, set in Hungary and Transylvania in the years before the First World War, is of a Tolstoyan quality and range that recalls the greatest Russian and French novelists of the nineteenth century.
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 unpleas…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593548 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593540 |
| Author: | Miklós Bánffy |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 800 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2013 |
| Weight: | 845g |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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Miklós Bánffy
Miklós Banffy
Miklós Banffy (1873-1950) was a Hungarian nobleman with extensive estates in Hungarian Transylvania (now Romania). He was the first patron of Béla Bartók and briefly served as Hungarian Foreign Minister after World War I. His castle and great library were deliberately destroyed by the retreating Nazis in 1944.
Hugh Thomas
Hugh Thomas is the author of The Spanish Civil War, Cuba, or the Pursuit of Freedom, and a trilogy about the Spanish Empire. He was Professor of History at Reading University and has also served in the Foreign Office and as Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies. His books include novels, biographies, and political as well as historical works. He became a Life Peer in 1981 as Baron Thomas of Swynnerton.
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