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قراءة كتاب St. Peter's Umbrella: A Novel
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St. Peter's Umbrella
"JOINED HANDS UNDER THE SACRED UMBRELLA"
St. Peter's Umbrella
A Novel by KÁLMÁN MIKSZÁTH
Translated from the Hungarian by B. W. Worswick, with Introduction by R. Nisbet Bain
Illustrated
Harper & Brothers, Publishers
New York and London, MDCCCCI
Copyright, 1900, by Jarrold & Sons.
All rights reserved.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| INTRODUCTION, | vii | |
| PART I.—THE LEGEND. | ||
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | LITTLE VERONICA IS TAKEN AWAY, | 3 |
| II. | GLOGOVA AS IT USED TO BE, | 7 |
| III. | THE NEW PRIEST AT GLOGOVA, | 11 |
| IV. | THE UMBRELLA AND ST. PETER, | 25 |
| PART II.—THE GREGORICS FAMILY. | ||
| I. | THE TACTLESS MEMBER OF THE FAMILY, | 49 |
| II. | DUBIOUS SIGNS, | 63 |
| III. | PÁL GREGORICS'S DEATH AND WILL, | 77 |
| IV. | THE AVARICIOUS GREGORICS, | 92 |
| PART III.—TRACES. | ||
| I. | THE UMBRELLA AGAIN, | 123 |
| II. | OUR ROSÁLIA, | 138 |
| III. | THE TRACES LEAD TO GLOGOVA, | 144 |
| IV. | THE EARRING, | 160 |
| PART IV.—INTELLECTUAL SOCIETY IN BÁBASZÉK. | ||
| I. | THE SUPPER AT THE MRAVUCSÁNS, | 191 |
| II. | NIGHT BRINGS COUNSEL, | 218 |
| PART V.—THE THIRD DEVIL. | ||
| I. | MARIA CZOBOR'S ROSE, THE PRECIPICE, AND THE OLD PEAR-TREE, | 235 |
| II. | THREE SPARKS, | 256 |
| III. | LITTLE VERONICA IS TAKEN AWAY, | 276 |
Illustrations
| "JOINED HANDS UNDER THE SACRED UMBRELLA" | Frontispiece |
| "THE CHILD WAS IN THE BASKET" | Facing p. 26 |
INTRODUCTION
Kálmán Mikszáth, perhaps the most purely national, certainly, after Jókai, the most popular of all the Magyar novelists, was born at Szklabonya, in the county of Nográd, on January 16th, 1849. Educated at Rimaszombáth and Pest, he adopted the legal profession, and settled down as a magistrate in his native county, where his family had for generations lived the placid, patriarchal life of small country squires. A shrewd observer, with a strong satirical bent and an ardent love of