Книга: They Were Found Wanting (Banffy Miklos); Arcadia Book, 2016

The second volume of Miklos Banffy's panoramic trilogy of the dying years of the Habsburg empire.

The tale of two Transylvanian cousins, their loves, their ambitions and their fortunes continues in They Were Found Wanting. 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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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781910050910
Автор(ы)	Banffy Miklos
Вес	0.35
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2016
Жанр	проза на иностранном языке
Издатель	Arcadia Book
Издательство	Arcadia Book
Кол-во страниц	488
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	488
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Серия	Writing on the Wall
Тип обложки	мягкая