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قراءة كتاب Eyes Like the Sea: A Novel
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EYES LIKE THE SEA
A NOVEL
By MAURUS JÓKAI
TRANSLATED FROM THE HUNGARIAN
BY
R. NISBET BAIN
NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
27 and 29 West 23d St
1894
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Preface | ix |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Sea-Eyes—Monsieur Galifard—The First Needle-Prick | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| My First Distinction—My First Grievance—The Damenwalzer—The Frightful Monster—The Readjusted Scarf—The Second Needle-Prick | 7 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| My Masterpiece and My Hut | 24 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Petöfi with us—Plans for the Future—The Rape of the Brides—Amateur Theatricals—My Menshikov | 40 |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Olympian Strivings | 54 |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| An Odd Duel—The Fateful Letter J.—I also become a Peter Gyuricza | 60 |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Weltschmerz Conditions—"Remain or Fly!" | 74 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Peter Gyuricza's Consort | 80 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| The Woman who went along with Me | 117 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| Where the World is Walled Up | 132 |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| Valentine Bálványossi and Tihamér Rengetegi | 140 |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| The Meeting at the Pagan Altar | 151 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| What Happened after That | 190 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| The Demon's Bait | 247 |
| CHAPTER XV. | |
| Marvels not to be seen for Money | 266 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | |
| Soldiering | 297 |
| CHAPTER XVII. | |
| Temptation | 309 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. | |
| A Cold Douche! | 321 |
| CHAPTER XIX. | |
| Esaias Medvési | 357 |
| CHAPTER XX. | |
| Confession | 379 |
| CHAPTER XXI. | |
| Maria Nostra | 394 |
PREFACE
The pessimistic tone of Continental fiction, and its pronounced preference for minute and morbid analysis, are quite revolutionizing the modern novel. Fiction is ceasing to be a branch of art, and fast becoming, instead, a branch of science. The aim of the novelist, apparently, is to lecture instead of to amuse his readers. Plot, incident, and description are being sacrificed more and more to the dissection of peculiar and abnormal types of character, and the story is too often lost in physiological details or