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They Were Counted - Miklós Bánffy, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Patrick Thursfield, Katalin Bánffy-Jelen
They Were Counted
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Painting an unrivalled portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, this story is told through the eyes of two young Transylvanian cousins, Count Balint Abády and Count László Gyeroffy. Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament, and the luxury of life in... show more
Painting an unrivalled portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, this story is told through the eyes of two young Transylvanian cousins, Count Balint Abády and Count László Gyeroffy. Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament, and the luxury of 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. Abády 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. The first book in a trilogy published before World War II, it was rediscovered after the fall of Communism in Hungary and this edition contains a new foreword.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781905147977 (190514797X)
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Pages no: 596
Edition language: English
Series: The Transylvania Trilogy (#1)
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5.0 They Were Counted (The Transylvanian Trilogy) (The Writing on the Wall: the Transylvanian Trilogy)
This is review of the Transylvania Trilogy, also known as The Writing of the Wall, and I am posting this in each volume. The trilogy is composed of: They Were CountedThey Were Found WantingThey Were Divided.These titles are taken from the Book of Daniel, from the Belshazzar’s Feast, when a hand app...
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Are 5 stars correct, or fair? I'm not sure. But I know that I was extremely into this book, and that having finished it not five minutes ago, it feels right. So there we are. It may be a bad idea, however, to give this a perfect review for the same reason that it often is to do the same for the firs...
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