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Book Tales and Traditions of Hungary

Download or read book Tales and Traditions of Hungary written by Francis Pulszky and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tales and Traditions of Hungary

Download or read book Tales and Traditions of Hungary written by Ferencz Aurelius Pulszky and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Folk tales of the Magyars

Download or read book The Folk tales of the Magyars written by W. Henry Jones and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of "a vast and precious store of folk-lore...found amongst the Magyars" (preface), including stories of giants, fairies and witches, and superstitions concerning animals, plants, stones, and sundries.

Book Old Hungarian Fairy Tales

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  • Author : Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
  • Publisher : Library of Alexandria
  • Release : 2020-09-28
  • ISBN : 1613108850
  • Pages : 76 pages

Download or read book Old Hungarian Fairy Tales written by Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Restless Hungarian

Download or read book The Restless Hungarian written by Tom Weidlinger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Restless Hungarian is the saga of an extraordinary life set against the history of the rise of modernism, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Cold War. A Hungarian Jew whose inquiring spirit helped him to escape the Holocaust, Paul Weidlinger became one of the most creative structural engineers of the twentieth century. As a young architect, he broke ranks with the great modernists with his radical idea of the “Joy of Space.” As an engineer, he created the strength behind the beauty in mid-century modern skyscrapers, churches, museums, and he gave concrete form to the eccentric monumental sculptures of Pablo Picasso, Isamu Noguchi, and Jean Dubuffet. In his private life, he was a divided man, living behind a wall of denial as he lost his family to war, mental illness, and suicide. In telling his father’s story, the author sifts meaning from the inspiring and contradictory narratives of a life: a motherless child and a captain of industry, a clandestine communist who designed silos for the world’s deadliest weapons during the Cold War, a Jewish refugee who denied he was a Jew, a husband who was terrified of his wife’s madness, and a man whose personal saints were artists.

Book Tales and Traditions of Hungary

Download or read book Tales and Traditions of Hungary written by Ferencz Aurelius Pulszky and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hungary   Culture Smart

Download or read book Hungary Culture Smart written by Eddy Kester and published by Kuperard. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landlocked country in the heart of Europe, Hungary was a powerful medieval kingdom. Intimately involved in European history and culture, the Hungarians have always been proud of their distinctive identity, reinforced by the fact that their language bears no resemblance to that of any of their neighbors. Today, following the collapse of Communism, Hungarians feel part of Central Europe again, the Europe of science, culture, and civic virtue, of gem-like Baroque churches and 19th century schools, town halls, barracks, and railway stations. This beautiful and beguiling land is home to the magnificent city of Budapest on the banks of the Danube, to the largest lake in central Europe, and to charming spa towns and hot springs. Hungarian openness and hospitality have been tested by the migrant crisis on Europe's doorstep, and the rise of populist parties. After setting the context in a brief historical overview, Culture Smart! Hungary offers practical advice and important insights into different aspects of Hungarian life today, to help deepen your understanding and appreciation of this complex and talented people.

Book Hungary

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  • Author : Norman Stone
  • Publisher : Profile Books
  • Release : 2019-01-10
  • ISBN : 1782834486
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Hungary written by Norman Stone and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The victors of the First World War created Hungary from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but, in the centuries before, many called for its creation. Norman Stone traces the country's roots from the traditional representative councils of land-owning nobles to the Magyar nationalists of the nineteenth century and the first wars of independence. Hungary's history since 1918 has not been a happy one. Economic collapse and hyperinflation in the post-war years led to fascist dictatorships and then Nazi occupation. Optimism at the end of the Second World War ended when the Iron Curtain descended, and Soviet tanks crushed the last hopes for independence in 1956 along with the peaceful protests in Budapest. Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, consistent economic growth has remained elusive. This is an extraordinary history - unique yet also representative of both the post-Soviet bloc and of nations forged from the fall of empires.

Book Culture and Customs of Hungary

Download or read book Culture and Customs of Hungary written by Oksana Ritz-Buranbaeva and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a one-stop introduction to the history, culture, and personalities of Hungary, a fascinating country located at the heart of Europe and born at the crossroads of civilizations. Hungary today is most certainly a Central European nation in terms of a modern geopolitical and cultural understanding of Europe. Additionally, it has occupied a central position in the constellation of European kingdoms for centuries. The story of Hungary is about a country at the heart of Europe, geographically as well as culturally, and of a people quite distinct from their eastern and western neighbors yet irrevocably intertwined with them in terms of their histories and futures. Culture and Customs of Hungary is an absolute must-have for high school, public, and undergraduate library bookshelves. Readers will explore Hungary's fascinating contemporary life and culture in this unique and all-encompassing reference work that highlights the most important Hungarian historical personalities and explains their role in the development of Hungarian culture and society, as well as their standing in modern Hungary. Topics covered include history; art, including literature, architecture, film, and music; customs and traditions; modern society and culture; media; gender roles; language; and religion.

Book Narratives of Sorcery and Magic  from the Most Authentic Sources

Download or read book Narratives of Sorcery and Magic from the Most Authentic Sources written by Thomas Wright and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hungarian Folktales

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  • Author : J.K. Jackson
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2024-07-30
  • ISBN : 1804177008
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Hungarian Folktales written by J.K. Jackson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the crossroads of Central Europe come Hungarian stories of adventure, morality, everyday life, fairies and magic. Hungary nestles in the crossroads of Europe, and so Hungarian culture shares elements from West and East, with a rich tradition of folk beliefs and folktales that have been passed down through the generations. This delightful collection gathers together tales told by the authors and folklorists Baroness Orczy, János Kriza, John Erdélyi and Julius Pap: tales of fairy folk, adventure and adversity, fables and lessons, magical creatures and transformations – from ‘Uletka and the White Lizard’ with its echoes of Snow White, to the adventure of ‘Prince Mirkó’ with its bloodshed and diamond castles. FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.

Book Lillian and Other Poems  Now First Collected

Download or read book Lillian and Other Poems Now First Collected written by Winthrop Mackworth Praed and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Worlds of Hungarian Writing

Download or read book Worlds of Hungarian Writing written by András Kiséry and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worlds of Hungarian Writing responds to the rapidly growing interest in Hungarian authors throughout the English-speaking world. Addressing an international audience, the essays in the collection highlight the intercultural contexts that have molded the conventions, genres and institutions of Hungarian writing from the nineteenth century to the present. They are mapping some of the ways in which a modern literature is produced by encounters with languages, cultures, and media external to its traditionally conceived boundaries. But rather than viewing intercultural exchange as an external force, the collection recognizes its enabling importance to the globalizing reception and circulation of Hungarian writing over the continuities and constraints implied by more traditional national narratives. Worlds of Hungarian Writing posits intercultural exchange as the very substance of a literary culture.Discussions of the politics of appropriation and translation, of the impact of émigré writers and critics, and of the use of world-literary models in genre-formation complement studies of the fate of western leftist critical theory in post-1989 Hungary, of the role of African-American models in contemporary Roma culture, and of the use of photography in late 20th-century prose. The volume spans a wide generic range, from the achievements of such canonical 19th-century critics and poets as József Bajza and János Arany, to neglected women authors-translators such as Theresa Pulszky, to modernist writers and critics like Antal Szerb and György Lukács, and to the contemporary novelists Péter Esterházy, Péter Nádas, and László Krasznahorkai. Each essay is an original contribution to comparative literature and to the study of this Central-European literature, but is intended to be accessible to readers unfamiliar with its traditions.

Book Lillian and Other Poems

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  • Author : Winthrop Mackworth Praed
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1852
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Lillian and Other Poems written by Winthrop Mackworth Praed and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poetical Works

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  • Author : Fitz Greene Halleck
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1852
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book The Poetical Works written by Fitz Greene Halleck and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Culinaria Hungary

Download or read book Culinaria Hungary written by Anikó Gergely and published by H.F.Ullmann Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culinaria Hungary presents the richness of Hungarin cuisine with recipes for Salami, goulash, marmalade-filled crepes and many other specialties.

Book Gesta Hungarorum

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  • Author : Simon Kézai
  • Publisher : Central European University Press
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 9633865697
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book Gesta Hungarorum written by Simon Kézai and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon of Kéza was a court cleric of the Hungarian King, Ladislas IV (1272-1290). He travelled extensively in Italy, France and Germany and culled the epic and poetic material from a broad range of readings.Written between 1282-1285, the Gesta Hungarorum is an ingenious and imaginative historical fiction of prehistory, medieval history and contemporary social history. The author divides Hungarian history into two periods: Hunnish-Hungarian prehistory and Hungarian history, giving a division which persisted in Hungary up to the beginnings of modern historiography. Simon of Kéza provides a vivid retelling of the well known Attila stories, using such lively prose as - ".the battle lasted for 15 days on end, Csaba's army received such a crushing defeat that very few of the Huns or the sons of Attila survived, the river Danube from Sicambria as far as the city of Potentia was swollen with blood and for several days neither men nor animals could drink the water." The book is also significant because of the author's legal-theoretical framework of corporate self government and constitutional law, inspired by French and Italian sources and practice, which made this chronicle become an integral part of Hungarian historiography.