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Title: Szegény emberek
Original Publication: Budapest: Nyugat, 1917.
Contents: Gombaszedés -- Erdei kis piros virágok -- Thekla Orowna -- Lázban -- Idegsokk -- Egy szegény fecske -- A macska -- Hőskor -- Szegény emberek.
Credits: Albert László from page images generously made available by the Google Books Library Project
Summary: "Szegény emberek" by Zsigmond Móricz is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The volume portrays poor and ordinary people—peasants, families, and frontline soldiers—grappling with war, deprivation, and moral tests. Its opening focuses on András, a Hungarian infantryman, whose stubborn decency, quick wits, and uneasy conscience reveal the human cost of the Great War. The opening of the collection follows András on a perilous WWI patrol after he refuses a sergeant’s stripe, senses that allied Croat positions have collapsed, and volunteers to scout “for mushrooms” with a handful of men. Crawling across exposed slopes under shellfire, the squad steadies itself with talk of providence (notably Medveczki’s calm faith), reaches their regiment for reinforcements, and then at nightfire holds an entire Russian assault at bay until help arrives. At dawn they enter a nearby village, where András disarms and calmly lines up more than a hundred Russian soldiers—moments that mix danger with unexpected fellow-feeling (handshakes before surrender). Threaded through is András’s gnawing worry over a letter about strife between his mother and wife, a feverish dream of their quarrel, and at the end his hard-won sense that what he truly sought amid heroics was inner peace. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 74.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Author: Móricz, Zsigmond, 1879-1942
EBook No.: 76118
Published: May 19, 2025
Downloads: 140
Language: Hungarian
Subject: Hungarian fiction -- 20th century
Subject: Short stories, Hungarian
LoCC: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: Szegény emberek
Original Publication: Budapest: Nyugat, 1917.
Contents: Gombaszedés -- Erdei kis piros virágok -- Thekla Orowna -- Lázban -- Idegsokk -- Egy szegény fecske -- A macska -- Hőskor -- Szegény emberek.
Credits: Albert László from page images generously made available by the Google Books Library Project
Summary: "Szegény emberek" by Zsigmond Móricz is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The volume portrays poor and ordinary people—peasants, families, and frontline soldiers—grappling with war, deprivation, and moral tests. Its opening focuses on András, a Hungarian infantryman, whose stubborn decency, quick wits, and uneasy conscience reveal the human cost of the Great War. The opening of the collection follows András on a perilous WWI patrol after he refuses a sergeant’s stripe, senses that allied Croat positions have collapsed, and volunteers to scout “for mushrooms” with a handful of men. Crawling across exposed slopes under shellfire, the squad steadies itself with talk of providence (notably Medveczki’s calm faith), reaches their regiment for reinforcements, and then at nightfire holds an entire Russian assault at bay until help arrives. At dawn they enter a nearby village, where András disarms and calmly lines up more than a hundred Russian soldiers—moments that mix danger with unexpected fellow-feeling (handshakes before surrender). Threaded through is András’s gnawing worry over a letter about strife between his mother and wife, a feverish dream of their quarrel, and at the end his hard-won sense that what he truly sought amid heroics was inner peace. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 74.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Author: Móricz, Zsigmond, 1879-1942
EBook No.: 76118
Published: May 19, 2025
Downloads: 140
Language: Hungarian
Subject: Hungarian fiction -- 20th century
Subject: Short stories, Hungarian
LoCC: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.