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Best known for her classic gardening book __Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden__, Eleanor Perényi had quite a wordly life before settling down in Connecticut with her flowers. __More Was Lost__ is a memoir of her 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, Perényi 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 the midst of massive political upheaval and shifting allegiances, Perényi and her husband remain steadfast in their dedication to their new life together, an alliance that would soon be tested...

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Author

Perényi, Eleanor

Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781590179505

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (160 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14