Project Gutenberg 2025-05-10 Public domain in the USA. 167 Berde, Mária 1889 1949 Berde, Mária R. Berde, Maria Haláltánc : $b regény $aBudapest :$bAthenaeum, $c1924. Albert László from page images generously made available by the Hungarian Electronic Library "Haláltánc" by Mária Berde is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story appears to focus on a group of characters—primarily the introspective and ill Hugh, the delicate, withdrawn Ginevra, and the practical Madame Mercati—who are living in a mountain sanatorium, presumably for the treatment of lung disease. Against the backdrop of a starkly beautiful Alpine landscape, the novel explores themes of illness, isolation, the longing for life, and the tentative emergence of love and hope among young people confronted by their own fragility and mortality. The opening of "Haláltánc" immerses the reader in the sun-drenched yet melancholic world of a high-altitude sanatorium. Ginevra, an Irish girl marked by illness and loss, quietly gathers flowers, while Hugh—himself a long-term patient—watches her with growing fascination. Their hesitant interactions are colored by the ever-present reality of sickness and the rituals of the sanatorium community, where small gestures, glances, and brief conversations take on enormous emotional weight. Tensions subtly arise as other patients—like the vibrant Ziegler and the spirited Aimée—interact with Ginevra, prompting moments of jealousy, self-doubt, and painful longing in Hugh. The detailed descriptions of routines, landscape, and fragile relationships set a contemplative, bittersweet tone, as the characters navigate hope, connection, and the shadow of death that hovers around them. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250509142732berde 1924 hu Reading ease score: 65.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. hu Hungarian fiction -- 20th century PH Text Category: Novels 433443 2025-06-30T06:16:16.961758 text/html 414330 2025-05-10T16:18:31 text/html 272852 2025-06-30T06:16:24.853755 application/epub+zip 270712 2025-06-30T06:16:19.064745 application/epub+zip 270712 2025-06-30T06:16:17.797765 application/epub+zip 439896 2025-06-30T06:16:29.131698 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 404677 2025-06-30T06:16:24.019731 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 399061 2025-06-30T06:16:15.738786 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 379297 2025-05-10T16:18:31 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15591 2025-06-30T06:16:29.274709 application/rdf+xml 11189 2025-06-30T06:16:18.300762 image/jpeg 2962 2025-06-30T06:16:18.047761 image/jpeg 225038 2025-06-30T06:16:16.994773 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog hu.wikipedia