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100 1 _aHerczeg, Ferenc,
_d1863-1954
245 1 0 _aMagdaléna két élete
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-27
508 _aAlbert László from page images generously made available by the Google Books Library Project
520 _a"Magdaléna két élete" by Ferenc Herczeg is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set in the Austro‑Hungarian world, it interweaves psychological drama, social comedy, and crime around Videczky Flóris, a proud Temesvár patrician and amateur criminologist, and Csákó Magdaléna, a mysterious woman whose loyalty and lies collide. Themes of chance, class, and moral responsibility drive the plot from an old inheritance to a modern scandal. Readers who enjoy character‑driven tension and ethical dilemmas will likely be drawn in. The opening of the novel frames fate with an heirloom: an austere matriarch tests two boy cousins with a dropped yarn ball, and the cautious child’s line inherits the Grál fortune. Fifty years later her beneficiary’s descendant, the wealthy Videczky Flóris, broods over “perfect crime” scenarios when a rain‑soaked stranger, Csákó Magdaléna, slips into his rooms, pledging silent devotion and staying near his small son. Suspicions rise; a search uncovers skeleton keys and a lover’s letter from the adventurer Paulusz Kamilló urging her to steal the family diamonds—already missing. Under martial law, Flóris informs the authorities yet hesitates to intervene when soldiers arrive; another letter then reveals Kamilló has fled abroad with the jewels. A drumhead court condemns Magdaléna, and the auditor’s dossier turns to her “first life”: an orphaned girl in Pozsony, briefly infatuated with a jurist, nearly married off to a dour confectioner before fleeing, then swept to Vienna by the persuasive Paulusz—who quickly shows himself to be a practiced con man. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBudapest: Singer és Wolfner, 1916
653 _aHungarian fiction -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77555
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