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Eyes Like the Sea
Mór Jókai
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He was a painter, a poet, a novelist. He lived during the Hungarian revolution and his love of freedom meant his life was often in peril. She was his first love, this girl with the eyes like the sea. She was at heart noble, good and loving. What an excellent lady might have been made out of this woman, if she had only met with a husband who, in the most ordinary acceptance of the word, had been a good fellow, as is really the case with about nine men out of every ten. But she always managed to draw the unlucky tenth out of the urn of destiny. And so she spurned his true love in favor of a high-flying dandy. He went on to pursue a life of politics and she to follow her capricious heart. But yet, throughout her life, she kept returning to him and to the end, of all men, she loved him perhaps best of all.
He was a painter, a poet, a novelist. He lived during the Hungarian revolution and his love of freedom meant his life was often in peril. She was his first love, this girl with the eyes like the sea. She was at heart noble, good and loving. What an excellent lady might have been made out of this woman, if she had only met with a husband who, in the most ordinary acceptance of the word, had been a good fellow, as is really the case with about nine men out of every ten. But she always managed to draw the unlucky tenth out of the urn of destiny. And so she spurned his true love in favor of a high-flying dandy. He went on to pursue a life of politics and she to follow her capricious heart. But yet, throughout her life, she kept returning to him and to the end, of all men, she loved him perhaps best of all.
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Felul în care este portretizată Bessie, subiectivismul scriitorului, cât și imaginile pitorești, evenimentele triste, revoluția, moartea, viața și dragostea, toate aceste elemente au format un roman inedit, captivant, în care până la final dragostea este cel mai important lucru din inima doamnei...more
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Excellent. The heroine is everything she should be, smart, brave, kind, audacious. The narrator is a well fleshed out character, and with a spine, based on the writer himself. Both propel the story forward and the novel is less focused on internal monologues and long descriptions of mannerisms li...more
Four stars because I usually don’t really enjoy old literature. I enjoyed this book a lot! The main characters seem fated to be together, but... anyhow, spoils. I enjoyed it.
This exciting story kept me close to my iPad and headphones for several days. An understanding of Hungarian history and language (which I have not) would make the story more enjoyable, I think. The story is told in a series of flashbacks. Much of the narrative takes place during the Hungarian Rev...more
I loved this book! I found it by pure chance, searching for Hungarian literature as I had just been to Budapest and fell in love with it. Turns out that Mór Jókai is a legend in literature, and a revolutionary as well! He was amazingly prolific, and for this book, the writer won the Academy's pri...more