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Mór Jókai. Tales From Jókai
Tales From Jókai
Table of Contents
PREFACE
BIOGRAPHY OF JÓKAI
TALES FROM JÓKAI. I. THE CELESTIAL SLINGERS
II. THE COMPULSORY DIVERSION—AN OLD BARON'S YARN
III. THE SHERIFF OF CASCHAU—A FRAGMENT OF AN OLD CHRONICLE[11]
IV. THE JUSTICE OF SOLIMAN—A TURKISH STORY
V. LOVE AND THE LITTLE DOG
VI. THE RED STAROSTA
CHAPTER I. THE JUDAS-MONEY
CHAPTER II. VACCINATIO SPIRITUALIS
CHAPTER III. FACE TO FACE
CHAPTER IV. THE CDT-TABLE AND THE CHALLENGING GLOVES
CHAPTER V. EVERY ROAD LEADS TO ST. PETERSBURG—BUT WHITHER DOES ST. PETERSBURG LEAD?
CHAPTER VI. THE EXCHANGE
CHAPTER VII. NEMESIS
VII. THE CITY OF THE BEAST. A CHAPTER FROM THE HISTORY OF A VANISHED CONTINENT
CHAPTER I. THE TABLES OF HANNO
CHAPTER II. BAR NOEMI, THE BENJAMINITE
CHAPTER III. DERELICT
CHAPTER IV. THE RAFT AND THE GREEN DOVE
CHAPTER V. THE PRIEST OF THE MEGATHERIUM
CHAPTER VI. THE CITY OF DELIGHT
CHAPTER VII. THE TETZKATLEPOKA
CHAPTER VIII. TRITON
CHAPTER IX. THE CHOICE OF A GOD
CHAPTER X. THE PROPHETIC MIRAGE
CHAPTER XI. THE DWELLERS AMONG THE GLACIERS
CHAPTER XII. THE DESTRUCTION OF A CONTINENT
CHAPTER XIII. CONCLUSION
VIII. THE HOSTILE SKULLS
IX. THE BAD OLD TIMES
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Mór Jókai
Published by Good Press, 2021
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From time to time the Fata Morgana exhibits her juggleries, but we are accustomed to it now, and nobody is deceived thereby. She inundates the distant landscape with an undulous sea, but nobody wishes to bathe in it. She shows us umbrageous woods, but nobody hastens to refresh himself there. She conjures up cities and palaces which nobody takes the trouble to admire. We, the sober children of men, have discovered the meaning of all these enchantments, and don't care a rap what sort of marvel this faded old fairy lays before us.
But on this particular day the Fata Morgana was in a peculiarly good humour. Very rarely does the sun burn so fiercely as it did then. The earth regularly cracked beneath it, and the beds of waterpools became dried clayey hummocks. It was just the day for the Fata Morgana's elfin extravagances. A pack of young girls, the dreamiest spectators imaginable, were ascending a green hill to gaze down upon the marvels of atmospheric phenomena.
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