More Was Lost Perenyi Eleanor
More Was Lost Perenyi Eleanor Best known for her classic book Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, Eleanor Perenyi led a worldly life before settling down in Connecticut. In 1937, at the age of…
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More Was Lost Perenyi Eleanor
Best known for her classic book Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, Eleanor Perenyi led a worldly life before settling down in Connecticut. In 1937, at the age of nineteen, Perenyi falls in love with a poor Hungarian baron and in short order acquires both a title and a struggling country estate at the edge of the Carpathians. More Was Lost is a memoir of her youth abroad, written in the early days of World War II, after her return to the United States.
In the midst of massive political upheaval, Perenyi and her husband remain steadfast in their dedication to their new life, an alliance that will soon be tested by the war. She throws herself into this life with zeal, learning Hungarian and observing the invisible order of the Czech rule, the resentment of the native Ruthenians, and the haughtiness of the dispossessed Hungarians. With old-fashioned frankness and wit,
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