{"product_id":"they-were-found-wanting","title":"They Were Found Wanting","description":"\u003cp\u003ePerfect Late Night Reading Jan MorrisBanffy Is A Born Storyteller Patrick Leigh FermorTotally Absorbing Martha KearneySo Evocative Simon Jenkinsthe Second Volume Of Miklos BanffyS Panoramic Trilogy Of The Dying Years Of The Habsburg Empire.The Tale Of Two Transylvanian Cousins, Their Loves, Their Ambitions And Their Fortunes Continues In They Were Found Wanting. Balint Abady Is Forced To Part From The Beautiful And Unhappily Married Adrienne Uzdy. Laszlo Gyeroffy Is Rapidly Heading For SelfDestruction Through Drink And His Own Fecklessness. The Politicians, Quarrelling Among Themselves And Stubbornly Ignoring Their CountrymenS Real Needs, Are Still Pursuing Their Vendetta With The Habsburg Rule From Vienna. Meanwhile They Fail To Notice How The Great Powers  Through Such Events As AustriaS Annexation Of BosniaHerzagovina In 1908  Are Moving Ever Closer To The Conflagration Of 19141918 That Will Destroy Their World For Ever.BanffyS Portrait Contrasts A Life Of Privilege And Corruption With The Lives And Problems Of An Expatriate Romanian Peasant Minority Whom Balint Tries To Help. It Is An Unrivalled Evocation Of A Rich And Fascinating Aristocratic World Oblivious Of Its Impending Demise.Part Two Of The Trilogy That Began With They Were Counted, And Ends With They Were Divided.Translated From The Hungarian By Patrick Thursfield And Katalin BanffyJelenwith A Foreword By Patrick LeighFermorwinner Of The Weidenfeld Translation Prize\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MacLehose Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47960929960181,"sku":"DADAX152943467X","price":41.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/81yo1uwmyYL.jpg?v=1775628503","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/they-were-found-wanting","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}