bookshelves: translation, one-penny-wonder, hungary, summer-2010, published-1918, doo-lally, noir, amusing, books-with-a-passport
Recommended for: Post on to Carey then Hayes
Read from June 14 to 22, 2010
Translated from the Hungarian by John Bátki
Introduction by John Lukacs
1. THE TOUCHABLE EVELINE. THE YOUNG miss lay abed reading by the light of the candelabra.
Beautifully written, and that last passage of wolf-howl winter nights brought a tear to my eye. And what about this from the hand of that rogue Pistoli: You were the Fairy Queen in the apple tree of my life
*sigh*
So many fabulous ideas here, and so much dark humour.
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