Wikipedia page about this book: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beszterce_ostroma_(reg%C3%A9ny)

Release date is 2022-09-06

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"Besztercze ostroma" by Kálmán Mikszáth is a novel first published in 1894.

Count Pongrácz István lives as a medieval warlord in 19th-century Hungary, maintaining his own army and ruling by ancient customs. When his purchased "lady" Estella escapes with a former servant, the eccentric count prepares to besiege the city harboring them. Meanwhile, orphaned Apolka becomes entangled in family disputes and eventually arrives at Nedec Castle as a hostage, where her presence unexpectedly transforms the count's strange world and threatens his singular devotion to the past. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Originally published: Hungary: Révai Testvérek, 1910