They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided

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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 unpleasant and dangerous lunatic, and a Proustian society helplessly bent on its own [...] is a novel hard to put down, a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature that deserves to be much more widely [...] published in English in the early 1990s by a small publisher, and a huge word-of-mouth success, this is the first edition in hardback, and in two rather than three volumes.

Über den Autor

Miklós Bánffy (1873-1950) was a Hungarian nobleman with extensive estates in Hungarian Transylvania (now Romania), first patron of Bela Bartok and briefly Hungarian foreign minister after WW1. His castle and great library were deliberately destroyed by the retreating Nazis in 1944.

INTRODUCER BIOGRAPHY:
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 [...] became a Life Peer in 1981 as Baron Thomas of Swynnerton.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781841593548
ISBN-10:	1841593540
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Banffy, Miklos
Hersteller:	Everyman Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	211 x 128 x 48 mm
Von/Mit:	Miklos Banffy
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.05.2013
Gewicht:	0,846 kg