02417cam a22003013u 4500 77437 UtSlPG 20260610134808.0 m cr n 260607r20251893utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG hu iso639-1 PH Tolnai, Lajos, 1837-1902 Dániel pap lesz Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-12-10 Albert László from page images generously made available by the Hungarian Electronic Library "Dániel pap lesz" by Tolnai Lajos is a novel written in the late 19th century. It centers on Máthé Dániel, a capable village schoolmaster whose energetic, status-conscious wife becomes determined to make him a Protestant pastor after the local minister dies, revealing the petty rivalries, ambitions, and social pecking orders of a provincial community. With a realist eye and a satirical edge, the story probes clergy prestige versus the schoolmaster’s lot, the power of appearances, and the corrosive force of gossip. The opening of the novel depicts the death and grand funeral of the old pastor Dömök Péter, which dazzles the town and ignites Dánielné’s fierce resolve to elevate her husband from rektor to pap. We meet the boastful leaseholder Markos, the swarm of visiting clergy, and Dániel himself—a towering man with a commanding bass voice—while his wife schemes tirelessly, even vowing to forgo meat until he agrees. Dániel wavers under her pressure and the flattery of a visiting seminary student, Oláh József, whose praise of great urban preachers and disdain for “komisz” rektori énekek stings Dániel’s pride. Gossip spreads as Dániel resigns his post, the villagers plead for him to stay, the esperes maneuvers for his own candidate, and Dániel conducts one last school examination under a chilly, needling official gaze—setting the stage for his uncertain leap toward the ministry. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Budapest: Athenaeum, 1893 Hungarian fiction -- 19th century https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77437 118157 118157