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Title: The Day of Wrath

Author: Maurus Jokai

Translator: R. Nisbet Bain

Release Date: November 24, 2007 [EBook #23608]

Language: English

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WORKS OF MAURUS JOKAI

HUNGARIAN EDITION

THE DAY OF WRATH

_Translated from the Hungarian_

_By_

R. NISBET BAIN

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NEW YORK
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COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE BIRD OF ILL-OMEN 11
II. THE HEADSMAN'S FAMILY 18
III. A CHILDISH MALEFACTOR 44
IV. A DIVINE VISITATION 56
V. THE UNBELOVED SON 62
VI. TWO FAMOUS PAEDAGOGUES 71
VII. A MAN OF IRON 93
VIII. THE POLISH WOMAN 121
IX. THE PLAGUE 175
X. A LEADER OF THE PEOPLE 189
XI. THE FIRST SPARK 210
XII. IN THE MIDST OF THE FIRE 236
XIII. THE LEATHER-BELL 25O
XIV. THE SENTENCE OF DEATH 264
XV. OIL UPON THE WATERS 277
XVI. 'TIS WELL THAT THE NIGHT IS BLACK 291
XVII. THE VOICE OF THE LORD 326
XVIII. THE READY-DUG GRAVES 336

PREFACE.

"Szomoru Napok" was written in the darkest days of Maurus Jokai's life,
and reflects the depression of a naturally generous and sanguine nature
bowed down, for a time, beneath an almost unendurable load of unmerited
misfortune. The story was written shortly after the collapse of the
Magyar Revolution of 1848-49, when Hungary lay crushed and bleeding
under the heel of triumphant Austria and her Russian ally; when,
deprived of all her ancient political rights and liberties, she had been
handed over to the domination o