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Title: The Lion of Janina
The Last Days of the Janissaries

Author: Mor Jokai

Translator: R. Nisbet Bain

Release Date: May 3, 2010 [EBook #32234]

Language: English

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MAURUS JOKAI

THE LION OF JANINA
OR
THE LAST DAYS OF THE JANISSARIES

A Turkish Novel

TRANSLATED BY
R. NISBET BAIN

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
1898

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

THE GREEN BOOK; or, Freedom Under the Snow. A Novel.
Translated by Mrs. Waugh. 16mo, Cloth, Ornamental,
$1 50. (In "The Odd Number Series.")

BLACK DIAMONDS. A Novel. Translated by Frances A.
Gerard. With a Photogravure Portrait of the Author.
16mo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 50. (In "The Odd Number
Series.")

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
NEW YORK AND LONDON.

Copyright, 1897, by Harper & Brothers.

All rights reserved.

THE LION OF JANINA

PREFACE

The first edition of _Janicsarok vegnapjai_ appeared forty-five years
ago. It was immediately preceded by the great historical romance,
_Erdely aranykora_ (_The Golden Age of Transylvania_), and the still
more famous novel of manners, _Egy Magyar Nabob_ (_A Hungarian
Nabob_), which Hungarians regard as, indisputably, Jokai's
masterpiece, while only a few months separate it from _Karpathy
Zoltan_ (_Sultan Karpathy_), the brilliant sequel to the _Nabob_. Thus
it belongs to the author's best literary period.

It is also one of the most striking specimens of that peculiar group
of Turkish stories, such as _Toeroekvilag Magyarorszagon_ (_Turkey in
Hungary_) and _Toeroek mozgolmak_ (_Turkish Incursions_), _A ketszarvu
ember_ (_The Man with the Antlers_), and the extremely popular _Feher
rozsa_ (_White Rose_), which form a genre apart of Jokai's own
creation, in which his exuberant imagination revels in the rich colors
of the gorgeous East, as in its proper element, while his ever alert
h