In Love With the Czarina · a short reading
A passage from In Love With the Czarina. Translated by Louis Felbermann.
Hungarian · English
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Timur's camp was always full of learned men, poets, and lute singers. When he devastated a country or uprooted a town, there was never a living soul left behind his track--not the sound of a child's cry, the bark of a dog, or the crow of a cock--everything was destroyed!
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Creator: Mór Jókai
Nationality / cultural background: Hungarian
Work / edition: 1894 translation
Translation: Louis Felbermann · English
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In the source: IN LOVE WITH THE CZARINA; paragraph 103 in the selected body section
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