num_pages: 470
description: Balint Abady is forced to part from the beautiful and unhappily married Adrienne Uzdy. This title 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 aristocratic world oblivious of its impending demise.
language: English
title: They Were Found Wanting
titlecomplete: They Were Found Wanting
characters: Sándor Wekerle, Countess Fanny Beredy, Gyula Justh, Countess Roza Abády, Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal, Jan Slawata, Pali Uzdy, István Tisza, Adrienne Miloth, Countess Elise Szent-Gyorgyi, Count László Gyeroffy, Ferenc Kossuth, Sara Bogdan Lazar, Dodo Gyalakuthy, Dr. Wolf Herman Kisch, László Lukács, Gaszton Simo, Count Balint Abády, Aurel Timisan, Miklos Absolon, Franz Ferdinand, Count Antal Szent-Gyorgyi, Kristof Azbej, Zsigmond Boros, Countess Lizinka Sarmasaghy
genres: 20th Century, Historical, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Romania, Hungarian Literature, Hungary, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 553
places: Austro-Hungarian Empire, Transylvania
series: The Writing on the Wall: The Transylvania Trilogy 
publisher: Arcadia Books