Baroness Orczy needs no introduction to lovers of good fiction. The scene of her new story is Hungary—the hero a handsome young peasant who, having inherited a fortune from his thrifty father, is enabled to save a Hungarian nobleman from losing all his lands, and in return receives the hand of the lord’s daughter whom he has long worshipped from afar. Immediately after the wedding the peasant bridegroom discovers that his wife despises him and has merely allowed herself to be sold as payment of her father’s debt. How he tries to overcome this feeling and what effect his generous and big-hearted nature finally has upon her must be left for the reader to find out for himself. Like The Scarlet Pimpernel, the present story is of intense dramatic interest and shows great emotional strength.
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“Signor Fogazzaro is at the present moment undoubtedly the greatest of Italian novelists. His nobility of feeling, his wide sympathy, his kindliness and breezy humor entitle him to a high place among writers of fiction.”
Villari’s “Italian Life in Town and Country.”
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