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They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided Miklos Banffy

They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided By Miklos Banffy

They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided by Miklos Banffy


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The liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he 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 destruction.

They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided Summary

They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided: The Transylvania Trilogy Vol. 2 by Miklos Banffy

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 destruction.This is a novel hard to put down, a masterpiece of twentieth-century literature that deserves to be much more widely known.First 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.

About Miklos Banffy

Miklos Banffy (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 works.He became a Life Peer in 1981 as Baron Thomas of Swynnerton.

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NGR9781841593548
9781841593548
1841593540
They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided: The Transylvania Trilogy Vol. 2 by Miklos Banffy
New
Hardback
Everyman
2013-05-31
800
N/A
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