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  • The Prisoner of Genoa

    Marco Polo is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures in world history.At just 17 years of age, he set off for the Far East with his father and uncle.Long presumed dead, he returned from the distant land of the Tatars after 24 years, not only with a fortune in treasure but with a wealth of stories and adventures besides.The tales of his adventures might well have gone with him to the ... Read more

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  • The Expansion of Metaphysics

    by Miklos Veto ...
    Translated by Chris Hackett ...
    The culmination of a lifetime's preoccupation with crucial human concerns too often curiously marginalized by the history of philosophy, The Expansion of Metaphysics sheds new light on freedom and the will by making the phenomenon of novelty philosophically intelligible. The a priori synthesis of Kant is joined to Judeo-Christian themes (the kenosis of Christ in the incarnation and the tzimtzum of ... Read more

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  • They Were Counted

    The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume I

    "Perfect late night reading" JAN MORRIS"Banffy is a born storyteller" PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR"Totally absorbing" MARTHA KEARNEY"So evocative" SIMON JENKINSAn extraordinary portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, this epic story is told through the eyes of two cousins, Count Balint Abady and Count Laszlo Gyeroffy. Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament ... ... Read more

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  • The Sargasso Sea

    The Genoan sailor Cristoforo Colombo set sail for the unknown western ocean, determined to be the first man in history to reach India by circumnavigating the Earth.In this novel, we follow a cast of characters adrift on their own “Sea of Weeds”—the turbulent sea of murderous impulses, passionate love, ambitious dreams, and devastating disappointments. After countless adventures, fate brings them ... Read more

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  • They Were Divided

    The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume III

    "Perfect late night reading" JAN MORRIS"Banffy is a born storyteller" PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR"Totally absorbing" MARTHA KEARNEY"So evocative" SIMON JENKINSThe final volume of Miklos Banffy's panoramic trilogy of the dying years of the Habsburg empire.They Were Divided reflects the rapidly disintegrating course of events in Central Europe. In the foreground... ... Read more

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  • Auschwitz

    A Doctor's Eyewitness Account

    Translated by Tibere Kremer, Richard Seaver ...
    When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform “scientific research” on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous “Angel of Death”: Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele’s personal research pathologist. Miraculously, he ... Read more

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  • Auschwitz

    A Doctor`s Eyewitness Account

    When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Jew and a medical doctor, Dr. Miklos Nyiszli was spared from death for a grimmer fate: to perform “scientific research” on his fellow inmates under the supervision of the infamous “Angel of Death”: Dr. Josef Mengele. Nyiszli was named Mengele’s personal research pathologist. Miraculously, he ... Read more

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  • All the World’s a Stage

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    The familiar figure of Shakespeare, the world’s greatest dramatist, belongs to universal culture. Little is known of his life, more of his plays, yet countless analyses and explanations of them have been written by distinguished experts on literature and aesthetics. Rónaszegi has no wish to join the ranks of these scholars and has instead chosen an unusual format. In his own words, he has written ... Read more

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  • They Were Found Wanting

    The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume II

    "Perfect late night reading" JAN MORRIS"Banffy is a born storyteller" PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR"Totally absorbing" MARTHA KEARNEY"So evocative" SIMON JENKINSThe second volume of Miklos Banffy's panoramic trilogy of the dying years of the Habsburg empire.The tale of two Transylvanian cousins, their loves, their ambitions and their fortunes continues in They Were Found... ... Read more

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  • There Was a Black Hole that Swallowed the Universe

    by Chris Ferrie ...
    Illustrated by Susan Batori ...
    A wildly imaginative STEAM picture book that transforms story time into a cosmic adventure! PLUS, use a black light to reveal secret, invisible text and artwork that reverses the story from nothing to the scientific creation of everything!From bestselling children's author Chris Ferrie, this laugh-out-loud science story blends playful rhyme with vibrant illustrations. A clever, cumulative rhyme ... Read more

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  • A Concise History of Hungary

    Translated by Anna Magyar ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the elections of 1988. It tells above all the thrilling story of a people which became a great power in the region and then fought against - and was invaded by - Ottomans, Germans and Soviets. The Hungarian people preserved ... Read more

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  • Bitter Comedy

    The Life of Molière

    Molière, the world-famous classic dramatist, lived, played and wrote three hundred years ago. Son of the court tapestry-maker to Louis XIV of France, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin became an actor, and then, taking the stage-name Molière, himself brought to the stage all the weakness and gaucheness that the tumultuous age set before him every day as France developed a middle class. He depicted the social ... Read more

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