Budapest: Szépirodalmi Könyvkiadó, 1974. 12mo with grey boards; gilt and black spine title; 1460 pages; bookmark; 18 cm Near fine; slightest rubbing to edges; pages are clean and binding tight; plastic cover around boards could be replaced as there are several chips and tears. Hardcover. ISBN: 9631502066In Hungarian. Originally published in 1935. Zsigmond Moricz descended from a poor but ancient noble family, and a family of serfs. After his studies at the Debrecen Reformed Theological University, at first studying theology but switching to law after 6 months. He was a journalist at the newspaper Az Újság from 1903-1909, and was vice president of the Vörösmarty Academy during the revolutionary government's rise to power. When that government fell, his plays were not performed in the National Theater, and was only published in Nyugat and Az Est. He was prose editor or Nyugat at the end of 1929. His work "express[es] the lives of the Hungarian peasantry and deal[s] with issues of poverty."
