Letters From Turkey

First published in 2000. Letters from Turkey, considered the best Hun,garian prose of the eighteenth  century, is written by Kelemen Mikes, a Transylvanian nobleman who went into  exile with Ferenc Rakoczi II, the Prince of Transylvania, after the War of  Independence in 1704 - 1711 in which the Prince fought to preserve independent  Transylvania. The Prince and his entourage spent some years ...