Krúdy's Chronicles : : Turn-of-the-Century Hungary in Gyula Krudy's Journalism /

Krúdy's Chronicles : : Turn-of-the-Century Hungary in Gyula Krudy's Journalism / / ed. by John Batki.

Written during the 1910s '20s and '30s, these articles offer a wistful and nostalgic image of the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, with portraits of the Habsburgs, culminating in first-hand reports in 1916, from Vienna on the funeral of Emperor Francis Joseph I, and from Budape...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
HerausgeberIn:
Batki, John,
MitwirkendeR:
Kelecsényi, László,
Lukacs, John,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2000]
©2000
Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (306 p.) :; photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • The Chronicler and the Historian
  • Tiszaeszlár, Fifty Years Later
  • Frigyes Podmaniczky' s Beard
  • The Bridegroom of Andrássy Avenue
  • The St. Stephen's Day Traveler
  • Catholic Crusading Knights of Yore: Their Glory and Their Decline
  • Somosy, the Man Who Taught Budapest a Les.son in Nightlife
  • The Court Kept by Miklós Szemere
  • The Authentic Account of a Legendary Card Battle
  • One Hundred Years of Horse Racing in Budapest
  • The Rose of Pest
  • László Mednyánszky, the Vagabond Baron
  • The Novelist at the Casino
  • My Adventures with the Poet on the Crooked Sidewalks [from Endre Ady's Nights]
  • The Lord Mayer of Budapest
  • The Streets of St. Theresa
  • Kossuth's San
  • Francis Joseph's Wine
  • Francis Joseph 1, the Foremost Gentleman in Europe
  • Ida Ferenczy, the Oueen's Lady-in-Waiting
  • Baltazzi, the Agent of the Prince
  • Letter from Pest
  • Winter Campaign
  • A Budapest Gentleman Who Had Stepped Forth from an Old Woodcut
  • Women's Hands
  • A Hungarian Village After Sundown
  • The Coronation
  • Charles IV, bur Ill-Starred King
  • lf the Elder Tisza Were to Return...
  • The Golden Age of Budapest
  • Budapest Stark Naked
  • A Revolutionary Conversation with a Russian Lady
  • István Tisza's Journey Toward Death
  • The New Conquest
  • How the Revolution Broke Out
  • Land Distribution at Kápolna
  • Károlyi's Strange Career
  • "The Bolshie"
  • Hungarian Gentry
  • Forefathers and Descendants
  • We, the Old-Time Hungarians
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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