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They were found wanting / translated by Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Bánffy-Jelen.

Title
They were found wanting / translated by Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Bánffy-Jelen.
Author
Bánffy, Miklós, 1873-1950
Publication
London : Arcadia ; St. Paul, MN : [Distributor] in the USA and Canada, Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, 2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Thursfield, Patrick
  • Bánffy-Jelen, Katalin
  • Bánffy, Miklós, 1874-1950.
Description
ix, 470 p. : port.; 22 cm.
Summary
"They Were Found Wanting takes up the tale of the two Transylvanian cousins, their loves and very different fortunes. 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-Herzegovina 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Uniform Title
És hijjával találattál. English
Alternative Title
  • És hijjával találattál.
  • Writing on the wall = Erdélyi tőrténet, the Transylvanian trilogy
  • Writing on the wall = Erdélyi tőrténet, the Transylvanian trilogy
Subject
  • 1878-1999
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina > History > 1878-1918 > Fiction
  • Transylvania (Romania) > History > 20th century > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • History
  • Fiction.
  • History.
Note
  • At head of title: The writing on the wall (Erdélyi tőrténet), the Transylvanian trilogy by Miklós Bánffy, book 2.
  • Translated from the Hungarian.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
190085029X
OCLC
  • 42444269
  • SCSB-12849931
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library