The Land Beyond the Forest 2 Volume Paperback Set: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Europe)

by Emily Gerard

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Novelist Emily Gerard (1849-1905) went with her husband, an officer in the Austrian army, to Transylvania for two years in 1883. Then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today a region of Western Romania, Transylvania was little known to readers back in England. Fascinated by the country, Gerard still found it an isolated and alienating place. In the years following, she wrote this full-length account (first published in 1888) as well as several articles on the region, which Bram Stoker used when researching the setting for Dracula. With humour and compassion she describes her encounters with the different nationalities that made up the Transylvanian people: Romanians, Saxons and gypsies. Full of startling anecdotes and written in a novelistic style, her work combines her personal recollections with a detailed account of the landscape, people, superstitions and customs. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=geraem
  • ISBN13 9781108021623
  • Publish Date 17 February 2011
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Cambridge University Press
  • Pages 770
  • Language English