Letters from Turkey

ISBN-13: 9781138979734 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 306 str.

Mikes

Opis

First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION, GLOSSARY, THE LETTERS, NOTES

O autorze

Letters from Turkey, considered the best Hun,garian prose of the eighteenth century, is written by Kelemen Mikes, a Transylvanian nobleman who went into exile with Ferenc Rakoczi II, the Prince of Transylvania, after the War of Independence in 1704 - 1711 in which the Prince fought to preserve independent Transylvania. Bernard Adams, the translator and editor of this volume studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was a Fellow of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and specialises in the translation of Hungarian literature.