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Title: Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War
Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1

Author: Mor Jokai

Commentator: Emeric Szabad

Release Date: May 2, 2010 [EBook #32204]

Language: English

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HUNGARIAN SKETCHES
IN
PEACE AND WAR.

FROM THE HUNGARIAN OF
MORITZ JOKAI.

WITH PREFATORY NOTICE BY
EMERIC SZABAD,
Author of "Hungary Past and Present."

EDINBURGH: THOMAS CONSTABLE AND CO.
HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO., LONDON.
JAMES M'GLASHAN, DUBLIN.
MDCCCLIV.

CONSTABLE'S MISCELLANY
OF
FOREIGN LITERATURE.

VOL. I.

EDINBURGH: THOMAS CONSTABLE AND CO.
HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO., LONDON.
JAMES M'GLASHAN, DUBLIN.
MDCCCLIV.

EDINBURGH: T. CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
PREFACE, v
DEAR RELATIONS, 1
THE BARDY FAMILY, 87
CRAZY MARCSA, 133
COMORN, 151
MOR PERCZEL, 167
GERGELY SONKOLYI, 173
THE UNLUCKY WEATHERCOCK, 205
THE TWO BRIDES, 213
THE BREWER, 237
THE SZEKELY MOTHER, 279
A BALL, 295

PREFACE.

Jokai is one of the most popular of the Hungarian prose writers of
fiction that sprang up a few years before the late war. His wit,
flowing style, and vivid descriptions of Hungarian life as it is,
joined to a rich fancy and great intensity of feeling,