03464cam a2200493 i 4500 354893491 TxAuBib 20180831120000.0 130501s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013013504 9780375712296 $30.00 0375712291 $30.00 9780375712302 vol 2&3 HRD $30.00 0375712305 vol 2&3 HRD $30.00 TxAuBib rda eng hun Bánffy, Miklós, 1874-1950. Erdélyi történet English. The Transylvania trilogy [BOOK] / Miklós Bánffy ; translated by Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Bánffy-Jelen. They were counted vol. 1. They were found wanting ; They were divided vol. 2 & 3. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. 3 volumes in 2 : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Everyman's library ; 353 "This is a Borzoi book"---T.p. verso, volume 1. Volume II contains books two and three bound as one. Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, page xxv) and chronology. Volume I, Book one. They were counted -- Volume II, Book two. They were found wanting -- Volume II, Book three. They were divided. "The celebrated Transylvanian Trilogy by Count Miklós Bánffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism in Hungary, Bánffy's novels were translated in the late 1990s to critical acclaim and now appear for the first time in hardcover. They Were Counted, the first novel in the trilogy, introduces us to a decadent, frivolous, and corrupt society unwittingly bent on its own destruction during the last years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Bánffy's lush depiction of an opulent lost paradise focuses on two upper-class cousins who couldn't be more different: Count Balint Abády, a liberal politician who compassionately defends his homeland's downtrodden Romanian peasants, and his dissipated cousin László, whose life is a whirl of parties, balls, hunting, and gambling. They Were Counted launches a story that brims with intrigues, love affairs, duels, murder, comedy, and tragedy, set against the rugged and ravishing scenery of Transylvania. Along with the other two novels in the trilogy - They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided - it combines a Proustian nostalgia for the past, insight into a collapsing empire reminiscent of the work of Joseph Roth, and the drama and epic sweep of Tolstoy". 20180831. English, translated from the Hungarian. Peasants Romania Transylvania Fiction. Hungary History 1867-1918 Fiction. Hungary Politics and government 1867-1918 Fiction. Transylvania (Romania) Fiction. Historical fiction. Thursfield, Patrick. Bánffy-Jelen, Katalin. Everyman's library ; 353.