Magdaléna két élete : Regény by Ferenc Herczeg
"Magdaléna két élete" by Ferenc Herczeg is a novel written in the early 20th century. Set in the Austro‑Hungarian world, it interweaves psychological drama, social comedy, and crime around Videczky Flóris, a proud Temesvár patrician and amateur criminologist, and Csákó Magdaléna, a mysterious woman whose loyalty and lies collide. Themes of chance, class, and moral responsibility drive the plot from an old inheritance to a modern scandal. Readers who enjoy character‑driven tension
and ethical dilemmas will likely be drawn in. The opening of the novel frames fate with an heirloom: an austere matriarch tests two boy cousins with a dropped yarn ball, and the cautious child’s line inherits the Grál fortune. Fifty years later her beneficiary’s descendant, the wealthy Videczky Flóris, broods over “perfect crime” scenarios when a rain‑soaked stranger, Csákó Magdaléna, slips into his rooms, pledging silent devotion and staying near his small son. Suspicions rise; a search uncovers skeleton keys and a lover’s letter from the adventurer Paulusz Kamilló urging her to steal the family diamonds—already missing. Under martial law, Flóris informs the authorities yet hesitates to intervene when soldiers arrive; another letter then reveals Kamilló has fled abroad with the jewels. A drumhead court condemns Magdaléna, and the auditor’s dossier turns to her “first life”: an orphaned girl in Pozsony, briefly infatuated with a jurist, nearly married off to a dour confectioner before fleeing, then swept to Vienna by the persuasive Paulusz—who quickly shows himself to be a practiced con man. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Herczeg, Ferenc, 1863-1954 |
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| Title | Magdaléna két élete : Regény |
| Original Publication | Budapest: Singer és Wolfner, 1916. |
| Credits | Albert László from page images generously made available by the Google Books Library Project |
| Language | Hungarian |
| LoC Class | PH: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures |
| Subject | Hungarian fiction -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77555 |
| Release Date | Dec 27, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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