Research Catalog

Title

Abigail / Magda Szabó ; translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix.

Author

Szabó, Magda, 1917-2007

Publication

• New York : New York Review Books, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

Rix, L. B. (Len B.)

Description

xi, 333 pages; 20 cm.

Summary

"Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó's books in her native Hungary. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been happy to spoil his bright and willful daughter. Gina is devastated when the general tells her that he must go away on a mission and that he will be sending her to boarding school in the country. She is even more aghast at the grim religious institution to which she soon finds herself consigned. She fights with her fellow students, she rebels against her teachers, finds herself completely ostracized, and runs away. Caught and brought back, there is nothing for Gina to do except entrust her fate to the legendary Abigail, as the classical statue of a woman with an urn that stands on the school's grounds has come to be called. If you're in trouble, it's said, leave a message with Abigail and help will be on the way. And for Gina, who is in much deeper trouble than she could possibly suspect, a life-changing adventure is only beginning." --

Series Statement

New York Review Books classics

Uniform Title

• Abigél. English
• New York Review Books classics.

Alternative Title

Abigél.

Subject

• 1918-1945
• Boarding schools > Juvenile fiction
• Schools > Juvenile fiction
• Fathers and daughters > Juvenile fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 > Hungary > Juvenile fiction
• FICTION / Coming of Age
• FICTION / Historical / World War II
• FICTION / Small Town & Rural
• Boarding schools
• Fathers and daughters
• Schools
• Hungary > History > 1918-1945 > Juvenile fiction
• Hungary

Genre/Form

• Historical fiction.
• Domestic fiction.
• Fiction.
• History.
• Juvenile works.

Note

• First published in Hungarian as: Abigél. Móra, 1970.

Call Number

JFD 20-3621

ISBN

• 9781681374031
• 168137403X
• 9781681374086 (canceled/invalid)
• 1681374080 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019025320

OCLC

1105750247

Author

Szabó, Magda, 1917-2007, author.

Title

Abigail / Magda Szabó ; translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix.

Publisher

New York : New York Review Books, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New York Review Books classics

New York Review Books classics.

Chronological Term

1918-1945

Added Author

Rix, L. B. (Len B.), translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Szabó, Magda, 1917- Abigail New York City : New York Review Books, 2020. 9781681374086 (DLC) 2019025321

Research Call Number

JFD 20-3621