Abigail

Title
  1. Abigail / Magda Szabó ; translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix.
Published by
  1. New York : New York Review Books, [2020]
  2. ©2020
Author
  1. Szabó, Magda, 1917-2007

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Additional authors
  1. Rix, L. B. (Len B.)
Description
  1. xi, 333 pages; 20 cm.
Summary
  1. "Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó's books in her native Hungary. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been happy to spoil his bright and willful daughter. Gina is devastated when the general tells her that he must go away on a mission and that he will be sending her to boarding school in the country. She is even more aghast at the grim religious institution to which she soon finds herself consigned. She fights with her fellow students, she rebels against her teachers, finds herself completely ostracized, and runs away. Caught and brought back, there is nothing for Gina to do except entrust her fate to the legendary Abigail, as the classical statue of a woman with an urn that stands on the school's grounds has come to be called. If you're in trouble, it's said, leave a message with Abigail and help will be on the way. And for Gina, who is in much deeper trouble than she could possibly suspect, a life-changing adventure is only beginning." --
Series statement
  1. New York Review Books classics
Uniform title
  1. Abigél. English
  2. New York Review Books classics.
Alternative title
  1. Abigél.
Subject
  1. Hungary
  2. Schools
  3. Fathers and daughters
  4. History
  5. Hungary > History > 1918-1945 > Juvenile fiction
  6. Schools > Juvenile fiction
  7. 1918-1945
  8. Domestic fiction
  9. FICTION / Coming of Age
  10. FICTION / Historical / World War II
  11. Juvenile works
  12. Fathers and daughters > Juvenile fiction
  13. World War > (1939-1945)
  14. World War, 1939-1945 > Hungary > Juvenile fiction
  15. Boarding schools > Juvenile fiction
  16. FICTION / Small Town & Rural
  17. Historical fiction
  18. Fiction
Genre/Form
  1. Historical fiction.
  2. Domestic fiction.
  3. Fiction.
  4. History.
  5. Juvenile works.
Call number
  1. JFD 20-3621
Note
  1. First published in Hungarian as: Abigél. Móra, 1970.
Author
  1. Szabó, Magda, 1917-2007, author.
Title
  1. Abigail / Magda Szabó ; translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix.
Publisher
  1. New York : New York Review Books, [2020]
Copyright date
  1. ©2020
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. New York Review Books classics
  2. New York Review Books classics.
Chronological term
  1. 1918-1945
Added author
  1. Rix, L. B. (Len B.), translator.
Other form:
  1. Online version: Szabó, Magda, 1917- Abigail New York City : New York Review Books, 2020. 9781681374086 (DLC) 2019025321
LCCN
  1. 2019025320
ISBN
  1. 9781681374031 (trade paperback)
  2. 168137403X (trade paperback)
  3. 9781681374086 (ebook)
  4. 1681374080 (ebook)
Research call number
  1. JFD 20-3621
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