Móra® Eger Stars

In the middle of the 16th century, the once glorious Kingdom of Hungary was in its final days. After the Battle of Mohács, repeated Turkish campaigns took the border fortresses one after another: after Buda, Pécs, Esztergom, and Szeged, Temesvár and Szolnok were also lost. The Ottoman Empire was penetrating the interior of the country like a wedge, but Eger Castle, the defender of the Uplands, still stood, where fewer than two thousand defenders faced two hundred thousand Turks.
Gárdonyi originally intended to write the life story of Gergely Bornemissza, but ended his novel at the point when his protagonist reaches the peak of his military career and is appointed captain of Eger Castle after the victorious Dobó repels the Turkish army. The imminent, sad end of his fate is only hinted at in the adventures of the first half of the novel.
Courage, non-compromise and loyalty in a seemingly hopeless struggle – this is the message of Gárdonyi's story, which was chosen by readers as the most popular Hungarian novel in the Great Book competition in 2005, more than a hundred years after its first publication.
The volume was edited and the notes compiled by Bence Horváth.
The text was edited based on the version published by Dante Publishing House in 1938.
Series plan: László Herbszt