December 1, 2014
Written by Margita Figuli (1909–1995), the newest volume in the CEU Press Classics series, a pure and delicate, passionate story of love, was first published in 1940 and became an instant success among contemporary Slovak readers. The story of childhood lovers Peter, the young commercial traveler, and local beauty Magdalena, threatened by the rich Zapotocny, who marries the girl against her will, appeared when the chaos of war was sweeping through all of Europe and the foundations of faith in the goodness of man were being violently shaken.
December 1, 2014
Edited by Diana Mishkova, professor of history at the Center for Advanced Study in Bulgaria, Marius Turda of Oxford Brookes University, and Balazs Trencsenyi, associate professor at the Department of History at CEU, the last volume of the series presents 46

