02667cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000330011324500190014626400510016530000470021633600260026333700260028933800360031550000310035150502500038250801010063252014160073353400630214965300380221265300290225085600430227999900190232277739UtSlPG20260610134812.0mcr n260607r20261920utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7ahu2iso639-1 4aPH1 aTormay, Cécile,d1876-193710aViaszfigurák 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-01-190 aIdőtlen bolt -- Fehér halál -- A fuvola -- A veszély -- Boldogasszony Arkádiában -- Az egyiptomi aranykígyó -- Ő volt -- Te csak dolgozzál -- A mesekönyv kis hercegnője -- Az apostol -- Aeterna Hungaria -- Viaszfigurák.  aAlbert László from page images generously made available by the Hungarian Electronic Library  aViaszfigurák by Cécile Tormay is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The book weaves parable-like, symbolist tales about desire, fate, sacrifice, and the price of happiness, following shifting figures such as a merciless shopkeeper who deals in human destinies, mountain shepherds trapped by a blizzard, the famed courtesan Lais and her proud suitor, and a coastal village facing the sea’s peril.

The opening of Viaszfigurák presents four vivid tableaux. In “Időtlen bolt,” a timeless shopkeeper—an avatar of Fate—sells “happiness” for terrible prices as customers pay with youth, honor, freedom, or love; only a mother buying joy for her child offers her own happiness, which the shopkeeper coldly accepts. “Fehér halál” shows a family snowbound on the Karst, where Ilia fells a hilltop cross for firewood to save them, and is left morally isolated by those he preserved. “A fuvola” reimagines Corinth: Lais recounts how a broken flute led her toward glitter and loss; Dorion takes her, scorns her with a single drachma “for the flute,” then later burns with longing as, behind closed doors, only a flute’s sob answers him. “A veszély” sets a storm-lashed harbor where women and old sailors watch the heaving sea for returning boats, the tension mounting as the first sails struggle home. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cBudapest: Singer és Wolfner, 1920  aHungarian fiction -- 20th century  aShort stories, Hungarian40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77739  c118459d118459