Project Gutenberg 2025-05-19 Public domain in the USA. 123 Móricz, Zsigmond 1879 1942 Moricz, Zsigmond Szegény emberek $aBudapest :$bNyugat, $c1917. Gombaszedés -- Erdei kis piros virágok -- Thekla Orowna -- Lázban -- Idegsokk -- Egy szegény fecske -- A macska -- Hőskor -- Szegény emberek. Albert László from page images generously made available by the Google Books Library Project "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.) 20250516102707mricz 1917 hu Reading ease score: 74.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. hu Hungarian fiction -- 20th century Short stories, Hungarian PH Text Category: Short Stories 268666 2025-07-30T06:45:39.866710 text/html 247299 2025-05-19T14:46:00 text/html 194713 2025-07-30T06:45:47.892670 application/epub+zip 193528 2025-07-30T06:45:42.973673 application/epub+zip 184265 2025-07-30T06:45:41.530706 application/epub+zip 349773 2025-07-30T06:45:51.561632 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 327688 2025-07-30T06:45:47.072679 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 242280 2025-07-30T06:45:38.961675 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 222512 2025-05-19T14:46:00 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14337 2025-07-30T06:45:51.710724 application/rdf+xml 14310 2025-07-30T06:45:42.148693 image/jpeg 3615 2025-07-30T06:45:41.885667 image/jpeg 174179 2025-07-30T06:45:39.890671 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 en.wikipedia