They Were Found Wanting - Couverture souple

Banffy, Miklos

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 190085029X ISBN 13 : 9781900850292

Editeur : Arcadia Books, 2000

Synopsis

Balint Abady is forced to part from the beautiful and unhappily married Adrienne Uzdy. Laszlo Gyeroffy is rapidly heading for self-destruction through drink and his own fecklessness. The politicians, quarrelling among themselves and stubbornly ignoring their countrymen's real needs, are still pursuing their vendetta with the Habsburg rule from Vienna. Meanwhile they fail to notice how the Great Powers - through such events as Austria's annexation of Bosnia-Herzagovina in 1908 - are moving ever closer to the conflagration of 1914-1918 that will destroy their world for ever. Banffy's portrait contrasts a life of privilege and corruption with the lives and problems of an expatriate Romanian peasant minority whom Balint tries to help. It is an unrivalled evocation of a rich and fascinating aristocratic world oblivious of its impending demise.

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À propos de l'auteur

Miklos Banffy (1873-1950) was variously a diplomat, MP and foreign minister in 1921/22 when he signed the peace treaty with the United States and obtained Hungary's admission to the League of Nations. He was responsible for organizing the last Habsburg coronation, that of King Karl in 1916. His famous Transylvanian Trilogy, They Were Counted, They Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided was first published in Budapest in the 1930s.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arcadia Books
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 190085029X
• ISBN 13: 9781900850292
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 470
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• Personne responsable: non disponible