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The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries

Name: The Lion of Janina
Author: Maurus Jókai

Auteur: Maurus Jókai

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Maurus Jókai Maurus Jókai

Engels
Paperback
9781410104984
19 februari 2004
308 pagina's

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A historical novel of Ali Pasha of Janina, one of the most brilliant, picturesque, and capable ruffians of Turkish history. Jokai's exuberant imagination revels in the rich colors of the gorgeous East, while his ever alert humor makes the most of the sharp and strange contrasts of Oriental life and society. Maurus Jokai (1825 - 1904) was a Hungarian novelist who took part as a journalist in the revolution of 1848. He wrote about 200 novels, including Timar's Two Worlds, Black Diamonds, and The Romance of the Coming Century. He was intended for the law, that having been his father's profession but at twelve years of age the desire to write seized him. Some of his stories fell into the hands of the lawyer in whose office he was studying, who read them, and was so struck by their originality and talent that he published them at once at his own expense. The public was as well pleased with the book as the lawyer had been with the manuscripts, and from that tender age Jokai devoted himself to writing. At the age of twenty-three he laid down his pen long enough to get married, his bride being Rosa Laborfalvi, the then leading Hungarian actress. At the end of a year he joined the Revolutionists, and buckled on the sword of a patriot. He was taken prisoner and sentenced to be shot, when his bride appeared upon the scene with her pockets full of the money she had made by the sale of her jewels, and, bribing the guards, escaped with her husband into the birch woods, where they hid in caves and slept on leaves, all the time in danger of their lives, until they finally found their way to Budapest and liberty. This city Jokai made his home; in the winter living in the heart of the town, in the summer just far enough outside of it to have a house surrounded by grounds where he could sit out of doors in the shade of his own trees. He became the best-known man in Hungary in his day, for he was not only an author, but a financier, a statesman, and a journalist as well."

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 19 februari 2004
Aantal pagina's: 308
Illustraties: Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur: Maurus Jókai
Tweede Auteur: Maurus Jókai
Hoofduitgeverij: Fredonia Books (Nl)

Vertaling

Eerste Vertaler: R Nisbet Bain
Tweede Vertaler: R. Nisbet Bain

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 142 mm
Product hoogte: 19 mm
Product lengte: 202 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 142 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 19 mm
Verpakking lengte: 202 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 336 g

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EAN: 9781410104984

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Categorieën: Literatuur & Romans

Historische romans

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Taal: Engels
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Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
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