Project Gutenberg 2025-07-10 Public domain in the USA. 233 Szép, Ernő 1884 1953 Szep, Erno A jázminok illata $aBékéscsaba :$bTevan, $c1917. A jázminok illata -- Híd -- Szoboszlai Gábor -- Letünt a boldog óra már -- A részegek -- Őszi vásár -- Az örmény isten -- Jóska halála és élete -- Párisi katona -- A szinház -- Jancsi, Béla, Csipcsala -- A cukrosbolt -- Lélegzet -- Makao -- Gute Nacht -- Románia dicsősége -- A nyulláb -- A táncosnők -- A szabómühely -- Zsebkendő -- A vak asszony -- A holdhoz -- Pest. Albert László from page images generously made available by the Hungarian Electronic Library "A jázminok illata" by Ernő Szép is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. Lyrical, impressionistic, and deeply humane, it sketches Hungarian small-town and city life through fleeting encounters, secret romances, and sharp portraits of ordinary people. Themes of yearning, transience, and the ache of beauty run through scenes of promenades, church gardens, bridges, bodegas, and shops, seen through sensitive outsiders and restless hearts. The opening of this collection moves from a dissolving evening promenade into a jasmine-scented church garden, where a lanky young man meets the volatile Piroska for a breathless, anxious exchange about escape, dread, and desire before she bolts into the dark. It then shifts to a first-person meditation on a bridge at dusk, observing passersby and spiraling into reflections on anonymity, compassion, memory, and the pull of infinity. Next comes the vignette of Szoboszlai Gábor, a staggering horse-dealer who declares his own name as he haggles and laments on conscription day. A tobacco-shop scene follows, with Nelli humming a wistful tune as she tends the small trade, thinks of a vanished correspondent-soldier, and quietly fights back tears. The section closes with two drunks arriving at a bodega before dawn, their clumsy gallantry and soda-water farce providing a rueful comic coda. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20250703003502szp 1917 hu Reading ease score: 65.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. hu Hungarian fiction -- 20th century Short stories, Hungarian PH Text Category: Short Stories 325541 2025-07-30T08:21:21.805381 text/html 304733 2025-07-10T18:16:29 text/html 297416 2025-07-30T08:21:26.707331 application/epub+zip 295615 2025-07-30T08:21:22.764369 application/epub+zip 228780 2025-07-30T08:21:22.326389 application/epub+zip 384010 2025-07-30T08:21:30.094358 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 349562 2025-07-30T08:21:26.298336 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 299058 2025-07-30T08:21:21.385362 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 279283 2025-07-10T18:16:29 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14320 2025-07-30T08:21:30.264317 application/rdf+xml 21724 2025-07-30T08:21:22.474368 image/jpeg 3161 2025-07-30T08:21:22.386350 image/jpeg 247091 2025-07-30T08:21:21.839417 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