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Hungary |
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Hungarian
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Hungary
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Hungarian
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My name is Eszter and I am from Hungary.My Hobbies :Reading. learning languages, doing yoga, making excursions,travelling, playing badminton,
I have a BA degree in Teaching English Language and Literature and in Librarianship. I don't know what else to write here at the moment, so I list books I've read :
Hungarian :
Works of great Hungarians like Sandor Marai, Geza Gardonyi, Mor Jokai, Kalman Mikszath, Istvan Fekete, Sandor Petofi, Janos Arany, Magda Szabo ( the list is not complete) and Hungarian folk tales. Some of you asked about Hungarian literature so I wish to comprise a list of Hungarian books I read, but first have to see whether they have been translated into English or German and their official foreign title.
Hungarian novels:
Géza Gárdonyi : Slave of the Huns (other title: The Invisible Man )
Géza Gárdonyi : The Prisoners of God
Géza Gárdonyi : The Novel of Ida
Ferenc Móra : The Treasure-Hunting Smock
Ferenc Móra : Song of the Wheatfields
Mór Jókai:The Baron's Sons
Kálmán Mikszáth: A Strange Marriage
Kálmán Mikszáth: St. Peter's Umbrella
Kálmán Mikszáth : The Good Palots
Istvan Fekete: Thistle ( the story of a Hungarian shepherd dog 'puli dog')
Istvan Fekete: Der schlaue Fuchs ( in German) The cunning fox ( the story of a lovely fox-cub called Vuk)
Istvan Fekete: Lutra ( in German) ( the stories of an otter called Lutra)
Hungarian poems/narrative poems:
Sandor Petőfi: The Apostole - a narrative poem
International
( books of all kinds)
The larger part of the book list have been sucessfully moved under the 'Reading List' heading of my profile, while some had to stay here.
Ernest Hemingway: The Indian Camp
Jack London : The Mexican
Herman Melville : Bartleby, the Scrivner
Some of Shakespeare's works
Cécile Aubry : Belle and Sebastian
Alfred Amenda : Eroica ( Beethoven's life )
Maugham's different short stories
Vicky Bennett : Life Smart
Gabriele Hoffmann : Versunkene Welten ( Sunken Worlds) a book about underwater archeology
Viviane Villamont : Le guępiot
Fay Weldon: Weekend
F. Marion Crawford: Arethusa
János Kovács/ Péter Lázár A./ Marion Merrick : A-Z Angol Nyelvtan
I liked most of the books I read and learnt from them many things I think.
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- 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- A Passage to India by E.m. Forster
- A Streetcar Named Desire. by Tennessee Williams
- Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Antigone (Dover Thrift Editions) by Sophocles
- Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque
- Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
- Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics) by Herman Melville
- By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
- Candide (Candide) by Voltaire
- Chicken Soup for the Cat and Dog Lover's Soul: Celebrating Pets as Family with Stories About Cats, Dogs and Other Critters (Chicken Soup for the Soul) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Marty Becker, Carol Kline, Page Lambert
- Complete Anne of Green Gable Boxed Set (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Anne's House of Dreams, Anne of Ingleside, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside) by L. M. Montgomery
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Eclipse of the Crescent Moon by Geza Gardonyi
- Embers by Sandor Marai
- Emile: Or, On education by Jean-jacques Rousseau
- Father Goriot by Honore De Balzac
- Fit for Life by Harvey Diamond, Marilyn Diamond
- Fit for Life ll by Harvey Diamond, Marilyn Diamond
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- Functional Sentence Perspective in Written and Spoken Communication (Studies in English Language) by Jan Firbas
- Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
- Germinal by Emile Zola
- Gods, Graves and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology by C.w. Ceram
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys by Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo
- How to Practice : The Way to a Meaningful Life by The Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins
- In Search of England by H. V. Morton, Jan Morris
- Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Bronte
- Jennie by Paul Gallico
- John the Valiant (Hesperus Classics - Poetry) by Sandor Petofi, John Ridland
- Lapaj, der berühmte Sackpfeifer. by Kalman Mikszath
- Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight, Marguerite Kirmse
- Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
- Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life (Classics S.) by Gustave Flaubert, Alan Russell
- Marriage (Oxford World's Classics) by Susan Ferrier, Herbert Foltinek, Kathryn Kirkpatrick
- Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust (Modern Library) by Nathanael West
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot
- Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck
- Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
- Oliver Twist (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics) by Charles Dickens
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Personality Plus by Florence Littauer
- Persuasion (Penguin Popular Classics) by Jane Austen
- Pharaoh by Boleslaw Prus, Christopher Kasparek
- Pilgrims of the wild by Grey Owl
- Pippa's Challenge by Joy Adamson
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions) by George Bernard Shaw
- Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
- Ragtime: A Novel by E.l. Doctorow
- Robinson Crusoe (Tor Classics) by Daniel Defoe
- Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue (Shaw Library) by George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence
- Sajo and the beaver people by Grey Owl
- Sara Crewe or What Happened at Miss Minchin's by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Flamingo Modern Classic) by Alan Sillitoe
- Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
- Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Tartuffe by Moliere
- Tenants by Bernard Malamud
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin, Margaret Randolph Higonnet
- The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
- The Call of the Wild: Complete and Unabridged (Tor Classics) by Jack London
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.d. Salinger
- The Dark Diamonds (Hungarian Original Title : Fekete Gyemantok) by Jokai Mor
- The Dolls' Room by Llorenc Villalonga
- The Dubliners (Penguin Popular Classics) by James Joyce
- The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
- The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
- The Ladies' Paradise (World's Classics) by Emile Zola, Brian Nelson
- The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-exupery
- The Man with the Golden Touch by Mor Jokai
- The Meaning of Syntax (Longman Linguistics Library) by Connor Ferris
- The Mysterious Island (Scribner's Illustrated Classics) by Jules Verne, N.c. Wyeth
- The Prince and the Pauper (Modern Library Classics) by Mark Twain, Christopher Paul Curtis
- The Private Life of Mona Lisa by Pierre La Mure
- The Red and the Black (Konemann Classics) by Stendhal
- The Return of the Native (Signet Classics) by Thomas Hardy, Horace Gregory
- The Scarlet Letter (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
- The siege of Beszterce: Three short novels by Kálmán Mikszáth
- The spotted sphinx by Joy Adamson
- The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christo Marlowe
- The Tribe of the Tiger: Cats and Their Culture by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Jared Taylor Williams
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Penguin Popular Classics) by L.frank Baum
- This Above All by Eric Knight
- Tonio Kroger (German edition) by Thomas Mann
- Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly (The Penguin American Library) by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ann Douglas
- Ungeduld Des Herzens (Fischer Taschenbuch) by Stefan Zweig
- Vanity Fair (Penguin Popular Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Volpone by Ben Jonson
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition) by A. A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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