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100 1 _aHerczeg, Ferenc,
_d1863-1954
245 1 0 _aAndor és András
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-30
508 _aAlbert László from page images generously made available by the Hungarian Electronic Library
520 _aAndor és András by Ferenc Herczeg is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set in Budapest’s pressrooms and glittering salons, it follows the audacious journalist Gombos Andor and the sensitive novice Kapuváry András as they maneuver through power, class, and ambition. Centered on a parvenu magnate’s household and the city’s café culture, it blends social satire with a keen look at tensions between old gentry and nouveau-riche elites, with a spark of romantic complication. The opening of the novel introduces András’s failed attempt to interview a haughty imperial general, immediately contrasted with Andor’s brazen success and swagger. The pair strike a quid pro quo—Andor even hands András the scoop—then the scene shifts to the Oceán Café, where a caustic writers’ table hails András’s fresh poetic talent while Andor alternates flattery, bravado, and envy. A visit to András’s modest home sketches a proud, practical mother, a charming sister Mici, and her slippery fiancé, Vidovics, who embodies rank without responsibility. The narrative then plunges into a sumptuous ball at the Szinger palace, portraying a powerful Jewish family—genial hostess, tyrannical son Pista, and sharp-eyed daughter Ada. Andor confides his long, idealized love for Ada, but during the dances Ada’s wit and curiosity turn toward András, stoking unspoken rivalry. As the night grows rowdy, newsroom intrigues surface (a newspaper buyout, bruised egos), and Andor, tipsy and incisive, “x-rays” the guests with bitterly comic social diagnoses—setting the tone of satire and collision that frames the story’s start. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBudapest: Singer és Wolfner, 1911
653 _aJournalists -- Fiction
653 _aBudapest (Hungary) -- Fiction
700 1 _aMark, Louis,
_d1867-1942
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77577
999 _c118297
_d118297