{"product_id":"the-transylvanian-trilogy-volume-i-they-were-counted-introduction-by-hugh-thomas-9780375712296","title":"The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume I: They Were Counted; Introduction by Hugh Thomas","description":"\u003cb\u003e**\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2013**\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Mikl s B nffy 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, B nffy's novels were translated in the late 1990s to critical acclaim and now appear for the first time in hardcover. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey Were Counted, \u003c\/i\u003ethe 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. B nffy's lush depiction of an opulent lost paradise focuses on two upper-class cousins who couldn't be more different: Count Balint Ab dy, a liberal politician who compassionately defends his homeland's downtrodden Romanian peasants, and his dissipated cousin L szl , whose life is a whirl of parties, balls, hunting, and gambling. \u003ci\u003eThey Were Counted\u003c\/i\u003e 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--\u003ci\u003eThey Were Found Wanting \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThey Were Divided\u003c\/i\u003e--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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375712296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 696\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.75h x 4.66w x 1.49d","brand":"Miklos Banffy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43084092604597,"sku":"9780375712296","price":30.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7aa9b038-df11-4627-997e-2b04c17cae99.jpg?v=1692110191","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-transylvanian-trilogy-volume-i-they-were-counted-introduction-by-hugh-thomas-9780375712296","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}