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LibriVox recording of Eyes Like the Sea, by Mór Jókai.
Read by MaryAnn Spiegel.
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. (Eyes Like the Sea won the Hungarian Academy of Sciences prize for literature in 1890.) (Summary by MaryAnn)
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Read by MaryAnn Spiegel.
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. (Eyes Like the Sea won the Hungarian Academy of Sciences prize for literature in 1890.) (Summary by MaryAnn)
For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.
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May 15, 2015
Subject: Another fine reading by MaryAnn. a wonderful Hungarian slavic novel...
Subject: Another fine reading by MaryAnn. a wonderful Hungarian slavic novel...
more or less dissimilar to western european and american, and english in general literature. There is this intriguing, odd "differentness" about it, akin to the Russians Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, et al...review to be continued when finished listening and reading. would be grateful for your tolerance with my impatience to write something in review prior to finishing. peace, fellow dudes and dudettes.
A great novel! Adventurous and intelligent female of the upper class dives into every cross section of the social order and undertakes dangerous, adventurous situations and still a capricious woman. very entertaining, heroine character is pretty Bessy.
PLEASE! MORE ENGLISH TRANSLATION AUDIOBOOKS OF THIS PROLIFIC HUNGARIAN AUTHOR Mór Jókai
A great novel! Adventurous and intelligent female of the upper class dives into every cross section of the social order and undertakes dangerous, adventurous situations and still a capricious woman. very entertaining, heroine character is pretty Bessy.
PLEASE! MORE ENGLISH TRANSLATION AUDIOBOOKS OF THIS PROLIFIC HUNGARIAN AUTHOR Mór Jókai
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