The Transylvanian trilogy. Volume II, book two, They were found wanting ; Book three, They were divided / Miklós Bánffy ; translated by Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Bánffy-Jelen.
Bánffy, Miklós, 1874-1950.; Thursfield, Patrick, translator.; Bánffy-Jelen, Katalin, translator.; Bánffy, Miklós, 1874-1950. Erdélyi történet. English. Selections.
2013
PH3213.B24 M413 2013b (Mapit)
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Title The Transylvanian trilogy. Volume II, book two, They were found wanting ; Book three, They were divided / Miklós Bánffy ; translated by Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Bánffy-Jelen.
Author Bánffy, Miklós, 1874-1950.
Uniform Title Novels. English. Selections.
ISBN 9780375712302 hardcover
0375712305 hardcover
Published New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Language English
Language Note Translated from the Hungarian.
Description 830 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Call Number PH3213.B24 M413 2013b
Summary "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"--Page 2 of cover.
Note Translation of the second and third parts of: Erdélyi történet.
"These two novels form the second and third parts of the trilogy Erdélyi Történet (A Transylvanian Tale), which was published by Arcadia Books as The Writing on the Wall and here appears under the title The Transylvanian Trilogy"--Title page verso.
Added Author Thursfield, Patrick, translator.
Bánffy-Jelen, Katalin, translator.
Bánffy, Miklós, 1874-1950. Erdélyi történet. English. Selections.
Series Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 354.
Includes Bánffy, Miklós, 1874-1950. Erdélyi történet. English. Selections.
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