num_pages: 596
description: Painting an unrivalled portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, this story is told through the eyes of two young Transylvanian cousins, Count Balint Abady and Count Laszlo Gyeroffy. Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament, and the luxury of life in Budapest provide the backdrop for this gripping, prescient novel, forming a chilling indictment of upper-class frivolity and political folly, in which good manners cloak indifference and brutality. Abady becomes aware of the plight of a group of Romanian mountain peasants and champions their cause, while Gyeroffy dissipates his resources at the gaming tables, mirroring the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire itself. The first book in a trilogy published before World War II, it was rediscovered after the fall of Communism in Hungary and this edition contains a new foreword.
language: English
title: They Were Counted
titlecomplete: They Were Counted
characters: Sandor Kendy, Szabo, Princess Agnes Kollonich, Pali Uzdy, Albert Apponyi, Gaszton Simo, Kristof Azbej, Countess Roza Abády, Ilona Varga, Countess Fanny Beredy, Adrienne Miloth, Count Balint Abády, Klara Kollonich, Ferenc Kossuth, Baron Egon Wickwitz, Count László Gyeroffy, Judith Miloth, Countess Lizinka Sarmasaghy, Prince Louis Kollonich, István Tisza
genres: Fiction, Historical, Hungarian Literature, Romania, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Hungary
ratings_count: 1287
places: Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Transylvania
series: The Writing on the Wall: The Transylvania Trilogy 
publisher: Arcadia Books Ltd