Foreign Classical Romances

Móric Jókay de Ásva (Maurus Jokai, 1825-1904) was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. Poor Plutocrats, or Poor Rich, is the most widely known of all Maurus Jókai's masterpieces, which is set in "the wild, romantic, sylvan regions of the Wallachian and Transylvanian Alps, which is the theatre of the exploits of that prince of robber chieftains, the mighty and mysterious Fatia Negra, and the home of those picturesque Roumanian peasants."