Jókai, writing partly from his own memories, tells of Bessy, a beautiful, wilful woman with eyes like the sea, whose marriages and adventures cross Hungary’s revolution of 1848 and the years after it. The narrator, a young writer, loves her, loses her and meets her again.
A rich, personal novel by Hungary’s most celebrated nineteenth-century storyteller. Download the free EPUB.
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