The Land Beyond the Forest 2 Volume Paperback Set: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania - Brossura

Gerard, Emily

Brossura

ISBN 10: 110802162X ISBN 13: 9781108021623

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Novelist Emily Gerard (1849–1905) went with her husband, an officer in the Austrian army, to Transylvania for two years in 1883. Then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today a region of Western Romania, Transylvania was little known to readers back in England. Fascinated by the country, Gerard still found it an isolated and alienating place. In the years following, she wrote this full-length account (first published in 1888) as well as several articles on the region, which Bram Stoker used when researching the setting for Dracula. With humour and compassion she describes her encounters with the different nationalities that made up the Transylvanian people: Romanians, Saxons and gypsies. Full of startling anecdotes and written in a novelistic style, her work combines her personal recollections with a detailed account of the landscape, people, superstitions and customs. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=geraem

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A rare first-hand Victorian account of this little-known region, published in 1888 when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In a highly engaging, anecdotal style, novelist Emily Gerard combines her personal recollections of with a detailed account of the landscape, people, superstitions and customs.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 110802162X
• ISBN 13: 9781108021623
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 770