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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Baron Zsigmond Kemény (1814–1875)

Kemény, Zsigmond, Baron (kem’ā-nē). An eminent Hungarian novelist and publicist; born at Magyar-Kapud, 1814; died at Puszta-Kamarás, Dec. 22, 1875. His romances and political writings are classics in Hungarian literature. Of the former, ‘Man and Wife’ (1852) and ‘The Abysses of the Heart’ (1854), both psychological studies, are among the best. ‘Studies’ (2 vols., 1870) is an admirable work.