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More Was Lost is a memoir of Perenyi's youth abroad, written in the early days of World War II after her return to the United States. In 1937, at the age of nineteen, in the midst of a European tour with her mother, Perenyi falls in love with a poor Hungarian baron and in short order acquires both a title and a struggling country estate at the edge of the Carpathians. She throws herself into this new agrarian life with zeal, learning Hungarian, and observing the invisible order of the Czech rule, the resentment of the native Ruthenians, and the haughtiness of the dispossessed Hungarians. In…
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4 editions- Hardcover · English · 2003Ulverscroft Large Print · 288 pages · 9780753198582
- Paperback · English · 2003Ulverscroft Large Print · 256 pages · 9780753198599
- Paperback · English · 2001Helen Marx Books · 278 pages · 9781885586544
- Other · English · 2016New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The · 288 pages · 9781590179499
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