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A Gyurkovics-lányok
''A Gyurkovics-lányok'' () is an 1893 novel by the Hungarian writer Ferenc Herczeg. In the novel, a Hungarian mother marries off her seven daughters in clever ways. The book explores "the native traditions ... concerning matrimony as the single career open to women, the strict seniority rights to marriage in a family of many daughters, and the code of honor compelling a youth to marry the girl with whom he has been caught in a flirtation". Herczeg wrote two more novels about the Gyurkovics family. ''A Gyurkovics-fiuk'' () was published in 1895 and ''Gyurka és Sándor'' () in 1899. ''A Gyurkovics-lányok'' was the basis for the 1911 play ''Seven Sisters'' written by Edith Ellis, which became successful internationally. The novel and play have been adapted into the films ''The Seven Sisters'' (1915), ''Gyurkovicsarna ''Gyurkovicsarna'' is a Swedish 1920 silent comedy film directed by John W. Brunius and starring Gösta Ekman, Nils Asther, Violet Molitor, Emile Stiebel and Paul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferenc Herczeg
Ferenc Herczeg (born ''Franz Herzog'', 22 September 1863 in Versec, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire – 24 February 1954 in Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian playwright and author who promoted conservative nationalist opinion in his country. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Career He founded and edited the magazine ''Új Idők ("New Times")'' in 1895. In 1896, he was elected to parliament, and in 1901, he became the president of the Petőfi Society. ''Dream Country'' (1912), one of his more prominent novels, tells how the love affair of an American business magnate and a Hungarian adventuress ends in jealousy and murder in the course of a yacht tour from Athens and Istanbul to Venice. In 1925, 1926 and 1927, he was nominated for the Nobel prize for ''The Gates of Life'' (1919), a historical novel about archbishop Tamás Bakócz, the only Hungarian aspirant to the papal throne, set in 16th-century Rome. One major recurring theme of his nov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singer And Wolfner
Sandor Singer and Jozsef Wolfner founded ''Singer and Wolfner'' Book Publisher and Bookstore in 1885. It was one of the largest and most successful of Hungarian publishers. History During the decades following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, and as a result of economic developments, limited liability publishing companies began to be formed. These became the business model for book and paper publishing in Hungary due to easier access to larger investment capital than the existing smaller businesses. The ''Singer and Wolfner'' publishing company was formed in 1885. Its founding members were Sandor Singer, and Jozsef Wolfner, who assumed the role of CEO. They changed their firm into the form of a limited liability company in 1923. Starting in 1943 it began to function as ''Új idők Irodalmi Intézet Részvénytársasag'' (New Times Literary Institute Ltd.). Their work The success of the company was due primarily to its concentration on child- and youth-literature, as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merriam-Webster, Incorporated
Merriam-Webster, Inc. is an American company that publishes reference books and is especially known for its dictionaries. It is the oldest dictionary publisher in the United States. In 1831, George and Charles Merriam founded the company as G & C Merriam Co. in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1843, after Noah Webster died, the company bought the rights to ''An American Dictionary of the English Language'' from Webster's estate. All Merriam-Webster dictionaries trace their lineage to this source. In 1964, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. acquired Merriam-Webster, Inc. as a subsidiary. The company adopted its current name in 1982. History Noah Webster In 1806, Webster published his first dictionary, ''A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language''. In 1807 Webster started two decades of intensive work to expand his publication into a fully comprehensive dictionary, ''An American Dictionary of the English Language''. To help him trace the etymology of words, Webster learned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is a city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States, and the seat of Hampden County. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers: the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern Mill River. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 155,929, making it the third-largest city in Massachusetts, the fourth-most populous city in New England after Boston, Worcester, and Providence, and the 12th-most populous in the Northeastern United States. Metropolitan Springfield, as one of two metropolitan areas in Massachusetts (the other being Greater Boston), had a population of 699,162 in 2020. Springfield was founded in 1636, the first Springfield in the New World. In the late 1700s, during the American Revolution, Springfield was designated by George Washington as the site of the Springfield Armory because of its central location. Subsequently it was the site of Shays' Rebellio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Ellis (playwright)
Edith Ellis (June 1866 – December 27, 1960) (also known as Edith Ellis Baker) was an American actress, director, and playwright. She began her career as a child actress, and then began writing, directing, and producing. Ellis operated several theatres and touring companies throughout her lifetime. She is the author of over thirty-five plays. While not an outspoken feminist, Ellis’s work continuously focused on the issues of women. She also developed her own theory on directing, with a focus on the agency of the actor. Numerous times throughout her life, Ellis produced and directed her own writing. Biography Ellis was born in Coldwater, Branch County, Michigan. She was the older sister of actor Edward Ellis. Her father, Edward C. Ellis, was a Shakespearean actor who began her career by putting her behind the curtain and on the stage from a very early age. Her first part was at age six, and by ten she was a star. Three plays were written for her before her twelfth birthday. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Pennsylvania Press
The University of Pennsylvania Press (or Penn Press) is a university press affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The press was originally incorporated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on 26 March 1890, and the imprint of the University of Pennsylvania Press first appeared on publications in the 1890s, among the earliest such imprints in America. One of the press's first book publications, in 1899, was a landmark: ''The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study'', by renowned black reformer, scholar, and social critic W.E.B. Du Bois, a book that remains in print on the press's lists. Today the press has an active backlist of roughly 2,000 titles and an annual output of upward of 120 new books in a focused editorial program. Areas of special interest include American history and culture; ancient, medieval, and Renaissance studies; anthropology; landscape architecture; studio arts; human rights; Jewish studies; and political science. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seven Sisters (film)
''The Seven Sisters'' is a 1915 American silent romantic comedy directed by Sidney Olcott. Based on the 1911 ensemble play ''Seven Sisters'' by Edith Ellis Furness and Ferenc Herczeg, the film starred Madge Evans, Marguerite Clark, and Conway Tearle. The film is now presumed lost. Cast * Madge Evans as Clara * Dorothea Camden as Liza * Georgia Fursman as Perka * Marguerite Clark as Mici * Jean Stewart as Ella * I. Feder as Sari * Lola Barclay as Katinka * Conway Tearle as Count Horkoy * George Renavent as Toni * Mayme Lunton as Gida * Sydney Mason as Sandorffy * Charles Kraus as Innkeeper * Camilla Dalberg as Mother * Marjorie Nelson as Bertha * Edwin Mordant as Baron Rodviany * Dick Lee as Servant * Lizzie Goode as Innkeeper's Wife See also *List of lost films For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of inco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyurkovicsarna
''Gyurkovicsarna'' is a Swedish 1920 silent comedy film directed by John W. Brunius and starring Gösta Ekman, Nils Asther, Violet Molitor, Emile Stiebel and Pauline Brunius. It was an adaptation of the novel ''A Gyurkovics-lányok'' by the Hungarian author Ferenc Herczeg. Cast * Gösta Ekman as Geza Gyurkovics * Nils Asther as Bandi Gyurkovics * Violet Molitor as Jutka Brenoczy * Emile Stiebel as Colonel Brenoczy * Pauline Brunius as Baroness Hetvics-Janky * Gucken Cederborg as Mother Gyurkovics * Julius Hälsig The gens Julia (''gēns Iūlia'', ) was one of the most prominent patrician families in ancient Rome. Members of the gens attained the highest dignities of the state in the earliest times of the Republic. The first of the family to obtain the ... as Father Gyurkovics References External links *{{IMDb title, 0011256 1920 comedy films Films based on Hungarian novels Films based on works by Ferenc Herczeg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Sister Of Six (1926 Film)
''A Sister of Six'' (German title: ''Die sieben Töchter der Frau Gyurkovics'', Swedish title: ''Flickorna Gyurkovics'') is a 1926 silent romantic comedy film directed by Ragnar Hyltén-Cavallius and starring Willy Fritsch, Betty Balfour and Lydia Potechina.Low p.452 It was a co-production between Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the Swedish art director Vilhelm Bryde. Cast * Willy Fritsch as Count Horkay * Betty Balfour as Mizzi * Anna-Lisa Ryding as Katinka * Lydia Potechina as Mrs. Gyurkovics * Ivan Hedqvist as Colonel von Radvanyi * Werner Fuetterer as Geza * Karin Swanström as Countess Emilie Hohenstein * Stina Berg as Countess Aurore Hohenstein * Gunnar Unger as Lt. Semessey * Axel Hultman as Captain Erdogy * Tita Christescu * Olga Engl * Harry Halm * Helene Hedin * Anny Hintze * Ruth Oberbörsch * Sophie Pagay * Gretl Schubert * Elza Temary * Truus Van Aal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter De Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter (), is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. History The roots of the company go back to 1749 when Frederick the Great granted the Königliche Realschule in Berlin the royal privilege to open a bookstore and "to publish good and useful books". In 1800, the store was taken over by Georg Reimer (1776–1842), operating as the ''Reimer'sche Buchhandlung'' from 1817, while the school’s press eventually became the ''Georg Reimer Verlag''. From 1816, Reimer used the representative Sacken'sche Palace on Berlin's Wilhelmstraße for his family and the publishing house, whereby the wings contained his print shop and press. The building became a meeting point for Berlin salon life and later served as the official residence of the president of Germany. Born in Ruhrort in 1862, Walter de Gruyter took a position with Reimer Verlag in 1894. By 1897, at the age of 35, he had become sole proprietor of the h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 Novels
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Hungarian Novels Adapted Into Films
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