The Baron's Sons: A Romance of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848Jókai, Mór
History
The Baron's Sons: A Romance of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
Jókai, Mór
Hungary -- History -- Uprising of 1848-1849 -- Fiction
1 vol., library 12mo, cloth, gilt top, deckle-edge
paper =$1.50=
The scene of the story is laid in Italy, in the latter
part of the fourteenth century. The hero, Luigi della
Verria, unable to bear the restrictions of home or to
reconcile himself to the profession of law, as desired
by his father, leaves his family and, as the result of
chance, becomes a man-at-arms in the service of Gian
Galeazzo Visconti, the cunning and unscrupulous Lord of
Pavia, known as the Great Viper. Thenceforward the
vicissitudes and adventures, both in love and war, of
Della Verria, are told in a way to incite the interest
to the highest point; and a strong picture is drawn of
Italian life at this period, with its petty vendettas,
family broils, and the unprincipled methods employed by
the heads of noble families to gain their personal
ends.
An individual value is added to the book by the
illustrations and title-page, drawn by Mr. E. W. D.
Hamilton.
"The style is admirable, simple, direct, fluent, and
sometimes eloquent; and the story moves with rapidity
from start to finish."--_The Bookman._
"A good story."--_N. Y. Commercial Advertiser._
"It is a triumph in style."--_Utica Herald._
=Cyrano de Bergerac=
A Heroic Comedy from the French of Edward Rosstand, as
accepted and played by Richard Mansfield. Translated by
HOWARD THAYER KINGSBURY.
1 vol., cloth decorative, with a photogravure frontispiece =$1.00=
1 vol., paper boards =.50=
The immediate and prolonged success of "Cyrano de
Bergerac," in Paris, has been paralleled by Mr.
Mansfield's success with an English version, dating
from its first night at the Garden Theatre, New York,
October 3, 1898.
As a literary work, the original form of Rostand took
high rank and the preference of Mr. Mansfield for Mr.
Kingsbury's new translation implies its superior merit.
=A Mad Madonna= and Other Stories.
By L. CLARKSON WHITELOCK. With eight half-tone
illustrations.
1 vol., large 16mo, cloth =$1.00=
A half dozen remarkable psychological stories, delicate
in color and conception. Each of the six has a touch of
the supernatural, a quick suggestion, a vivid
intensity, and a dreamy realism that is matchless in
its forceful execution.
=On the Point.=
A Summer Idyl. By NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, author of "Not
Angels Quite," with dainty half-tone illustrations as
chapter headings.
1 vol., large 16mo, cloth =$1.00=
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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