Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War

by Mór Jókai

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Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War is by Mór Jókai. The contents list names pieces called Dear Relations, The Bardy Family, Crazy Marcsa, Comorn and The Brewer, among others. The preface says Jokai is one of the most popular of the Hungarian prose writers of fiction that sprang up a few years before the late war.

Uncle Kassay, the text says, has been known in his scholar days, rather than run up an account at the shoemaker's, to feign illness and keep his room when his boots needed mending. Two boys had driven their sheep to a great distance when, towards evening, a sharp and biting wind arose from the north. The shepherd boys hastily assembled their sheep and began to drive them home, but the snow fell thickly, driven about by the wind, and in a few moments the path which guided them was covered.

About the author

Mór Jókai

Mór Jókai (1825-1904), also known as Maurus Jókai, was Hungary's most popular and prolific novelist and a leading voice of its Romantic era. A participant in the 1848 revolution, he went on to write more than a hundred novels celebrating Hungarian history, landscape, and national character.