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They Were Counted by Miklos BANFFY
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Writing on the Wall Ser.
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 bec ...Show more
They Were Divided: The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume III by Miklos Banffy
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Writing on the Wall Ser.
In the sequel to They Were Counted, Balint Abady is forced to part from the beautiful and unhappily married Adrienne Uzdy. Gyeroffy is rapidly heading for self-destruction through drink and his own fecklessness. The politicians, quarrelling among themselves and stubbornly ignoring their countrymen's re ...Show more
They Were Found Wanting by Miklos BANFFY
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Writing on the Wall Ser.
They Were Divided reflects the rapidly disintegrating course of events in central Europe on the eve of WWI. A literary masterpiece, in the foreground it tells the story of Balint and his flawed cousin, Laszlo Gyeroffy, with humor and bittersweet nostalgia for a paradise lost through folly. In the backgr ...Show more
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