Buch, Englisch, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 565 g
Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania
Buch, Englisch, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 565 g
Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Women's Writing
ISBN: 978-1-108-02161-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Novelist Emily Gerard (1849-1905) went with her husband, an officer in the Austrian army, to Transylvania for two years in 1883. Then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today a region of western Romania, Transylvania was little known to readers back in England. In the years following, she wrote this full-length account (published in 1888) as well as several articles on the region, which Bram Stoker used when researching the setting for Dracula. She describes encounters with the different nationalities that made up the Transylvanian people: Romanians, Saxons and gypsies. Full of startling anecdotes and written in a novelistic style, her work combines her personal recollections with a detailed account of the landscape and people. The second volume covers the gypsy and Jewish populations, as well as Gerard's mixed feelings on leaving the country. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=geraem
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27. Roumanian superstition continued. Animals, weather, mixed superstitions, spirits, shadows, etc.; 28. Saxon superstition. Remedies, witches, weather-makers; 29. Saxon superstition continued. Animals, plants, days; 30. Saxon customs and dramas; 31. Buried treasures; 32. The Tziganes. Liszt and Lenau; 33. The Tziganes. Their life and occupations; 34. The Tziganes. Humour, proverbs, religion and morality; 35. The gipsy fortune-teller; 36. The Tzigane musician; 37. Gipsy poetry; 38. The Szekels and Armenians; 39. Frontier regiments; 40. Wolves, bears, and other animals; 41. A Roumanian village; 42. A gipsy camp; 43. The Bruckenthals; 44. Still-life at Hermanstadt. A Transylvanian Cranford; 44. Fire and blood. The Hermanstadt murder; 46. The Klausenburg carnival; 47. Journey from Hermanstadt to Kronstadt; 48. Kronstadt; 49. Sinala; 50. Up the mountains; 51. The Bulea See; 52. The Wienerwald. A digression; 53. A week in the pine-region; 54. La Dus and Bistra; 55. A night in the Stina; 56. Farewell to Transylvania. The enchanted garden.
