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"MORE WAS LOST reads more delightfully than fiction...perceptive, sensitive, the book is full of anecdotes, glimpses of semi-feudal life, and vignettes of the friends and relatives with whom the Perenyis passed their days." NEW YORK TIMES The author of the gardening classic GREEN THOUGHTS turns to her own past for this enjoyable book. A captivating cast of characters as entertaining as any found in storybooks gives us an inside look at a now bygone age. She writes about her marriage to a Hungarian baron, their life on a Ruthenian estate, and the devastating effects of World War II on their family and friends. Lucid, crisp, and unpretentious, MORE WAS LOST is a joy to read.
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About the Author:
Eleanor Perenyi, who lives in Stonington, Connecticut, is the author of "Liszt: The Artist as Romantic Hero, The Bright Sword", a novel, "Green Thoughts", and many essays.
Review:
“The book is entirely unpretentious...It is always lucid and crisp...If it is possible to draw a moral from the story, it would have to have something to do with the enormous and dangerous discrepancy between the traditional American way of taking Europe as a delightful fairy tale and the picture it actually presents: of absurd, anachronistic nationalisms and unequal stages of social development tearing one another to pieces.”
—Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker
“[Parts] of More Was Lost...read more delightfully than fiction. The book is full of delightful anecdotes, glimpses of semi-feudal life, vignettes of the friends and relatives with whom the Perényis passed their days.”
—Catherine Maher, The New York Times
“The baronial way of life that Eleanor recorded has the historical detail of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Between the Woods and the Water, yet there is none of the traveler’s distance in her writing.”
—Richard Teleky, The Hopkins Review
"[Perényi] emerges from her own pages a thoroughly likable person...her book is soaked in the atmosphere of a society and way of life that were several centuries outdated even before the Germans and the Hungarians and the Ruthenians and the Russians finally obliterated it from the world. The feudalism of Hungary was rusty and obsolete, but it had its charms. Now they are only memories, so that More Was Lost has the appeal of a lost cause." --Orville Prescott, The New York Times
It’s tempting to call this lovely little book “charming,” but it’s much steelier—and sadder—than that...How lovely that More Was Lost is lost no more.
—Britta Bohler, Open Letters Monthly
—Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker
“[Parts] of More Was Lost...read more delightfully than fiction. The book is full of delightful anecdotes, glimpses of semi-feudal life, vignettes of the friends and relatives with whom the Perényis passed their days.”
—Catherine Maher, The New York Times
“The baronial way of life that Eleanor recorded has the historical detail of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Between the Woods and the Water, yet there is none of the traveler’s distance in her writing.”
—Richard Teleky, The Hopkins Review
"[Perényi] emerges from her own pages a thoroughly likable person...her book is soaked in the atmosphere of a society and way of life that were several centuries outdated even before the Germans and the Hungarians and the Ruthenians and the Russians finally obliterated it from the world. The feudalism of Hungary was rusty and obsolete, but it had its charms. Now they are only memories, so that More Was Lost has the appeal of a lost cause." --Orville Prescott, The New York Times
It’s tempting to call this lovely little book “charming,” but it’s much steelier—and sadder—than that...How lovely that More Was Lost is lost no more.
—Britta Bohler, Open Letters Monthly
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- PublisherIsis Large Print
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0753198584
- ISBN 13 9780753198582
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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