The Transylvanian trilogy
Subtitle: They were found wanting : Book three, They were divided
By: Miklós Bánffy ; translated by Patrick Thursfield and Katalin Bánffy-Jelen
Contributors: Thursfield, Patrick, translator; Bánffy-Jelen, Katalin, translator; Bánffy, Miklós, 1874-1950
Series: Everyman's library -- 354; Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) -- 354.
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 830
ISBN-13: 9780375712302
Subjects: Politics and government; Fiction; Peasants; History
Other titles: They were found wanting; They were divided
Work titles: Novels
Description: "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"--Page 2 of cover.
Notes: Translation of the second and third parts of: Erdélyi történet.

"These two novels form the second and third parts of the trilogy Erdélyi Történet (A Transylvanian Tale), which was published by Arcadia Books as The Writing on the Wall and here appears under the title The Transylvanian Trilogy"--Title page verso.

Translated from the Hungarian.
Table of contents: title: They were found wanting --; title: They were divided.