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’Midst the Wild Carpathians
Chapitres (20)
- Introduction 0:00
- Book I: By Command of the Padishah: I: A Hunt in the Year 1666 5:23
- II: The House at Ebesfalva 50:14
- III: A Prince in His Own Despite 1:13:28
- IV: A Banquet with the Prince of Transylvania 1:36:44
- V: Bodola 1:55:36
- VI: The Battle of Nagy Szöllös 2:24:48
- VII: The Princess 2:57:54
- VIII: The Peri 3:35:15
- IX: The Prince and His Minister 4:29:09
- Book II: The Devil’s Garden: I: The Patrol 5:11:38
- II: Sange Moarte 5:36:08
- III: An Hungarian Magnate in the Sixteenth Century 6:25:00
- IV: The Midnight Battle 7:11:58
- V: The Banquet Tribunal 7:49:32
- VI: The Diet of Karoly-Fehervár 8:07:50
- VII: The Jus Ligatum 8:40:11
- VIII: Death for a Kiss 8:57:54
- IX: Consort and Concubine 9:22:51
- X: The Sentence 10:38:59
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After being released from Tartar captivity, Michael Apafi, a Transylvanian noble, is installed as Prince of Transylvania by the Ottoman Sultan. He must now secure his authority and deal with conflicting interests both domestic and foreign. With his realm located between the Ottoman Sultan and the Austrian Emperor, its independence is in constant danger.
’Midst the Wild Carpathians is one of Mór Jókai’s most famous works. Written in the context of budding Hungarian nationalism, the novel is a fictionalized retelling of real events of 17th Century Transylvania.