Manasseh

A Romance of Transylvania

by Mór Jókai

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Manasseh is a romance of Transylvania by Mór Jókai, retold in English by Percy Favor Bicknell (Boston, 1901). The contents list chapters titled "A Fellow Traveller", "Holy Week in Rome", "An Audience with the Pope", "The Anonymous Letter", "A Ghostly Visitant", "Wallachian Hospitality" and "Balyika Cave".

In one scene two ladies on a train talk about a young man whom they call a heretic. One of them says his name is Manasseh Adorjan, that he is of old Szekler descent, and that he has seven brothers and a twin sister, all living in the family's ancestral castle. In another passage Blanka is troubled by wasps, and Aaron sets a bunch of dry grass alight in a hollow beech to smoke them out. The tree catches and flames rise from the top, and Zenobia cries out. Elsewhere the talk turns to whether Manasseh Adorjan will fight when he is ordered to.

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.