Product Description
Janicsdrok vtgnapjai appeared forty-five years ago. It was immediately preceded by the great historical romance, Erdcly aranykora (T he Golden A ge of Transylvania), and the still more famous novel of manners, Egy Magyar Nabob (A Hungarian Nabob, which Hungarians regard as, indisputably, Jokai smasterpiece, while only a few months separate it from Kdrpdt Jiy Zoltdn (S ultan Karpat Jiy, the brilliant sequel to the Nabob. Thus it belongs to the authors best literary period. It is also one of the most striking specimens of that peculiar group of Turkish stories, such as Torokvilag Magyarorszagon (T urkey in Hungary and Torok mozgolmak (T urkish I ncursions), A kttszarvu ember (T he Man with the A ntlers), and the extremely popular Fehr rozsa (W hite Rose, which form a genre apart of Jdkai sown creation, irf which his exuberant imagination revels in the rich colors of the gorgeous East, as in its proper element, while his ever alert humor makes the most of the sharp and strange contrasts of Oriental life and society.
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