They Were Counted

Miklos Banffy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

596 Seiten

2009
Arcadia Books (Verlag)
978-1-905147-97-7 (ISBN)

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With shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament and the luxury life in Budapest as the backdrop, this novel forms an indictment of upper-class frivolity and political folly, in which good manners cloak indifference and brutality.

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.

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.

Foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.5.2009
Reihe/Serie	Transylvanian Trilogy
Übersetzer	Patrick Thursfield, Countess Banffy-Jelen
Zusatzinfo	frontispiece
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 198 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10	1-905147-97-X / 190514797X
ISBN-13	978-1-905147-97-7 / 9781905147977
Zustand	Neuware