The Golden Age in Transylvania

by Mór Jókai

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The Golden Age in Transylvania is by Mór Jókai. An opening note says the scene of the story is laid in Transylvania, in the close of the seventeenth century. The same note says the incidents relate to the reign of Michel Apafi, whom the Turks raised to the throne.

A stag stretches his neck and barks loudly in imitation of the hounds, to lead them on a false scent. People who say they live in Marisel report that they have burned up Tuesday evening, and one cry heard is "Burn to ashes, you accursed witch of Tuesday evening!" A man's one passion, which had entirely filled his soul, was pride, and with it gone the world was empty.

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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.