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| Vuk | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | István Fekete |
| Country | Hungary |
| Language | Hungarian |
| Publication date | 1965 |
Vuk is a 1965 Hungarian novel by István Fekete about the life of a young fox.
Plot of novel introduction [link]
Vuk and his brothers and sisters are born near the pond one spring. Their father Kag and their mother Iny have to hunt continuously to get enough food to feed them. Then the Ranger finds the fox's home and sends in dogs to destroy the foxes that have been stealing from the village farmyards. The fox parents manage to save only one of their children: Vuk, who is left by the pond out of danger.
Plot of novel summary [link]
It is not long before the frightened Vuk is found by Karak his uncle who takes the little fox under his wing and takes him to his cave in the cliffs to teach him the ways of the forest. Vuk learns quickly and soon becomes one of the greatest foxes in the wood.
Vuk also learns that the smooth-skin Ranger is responsible for the murder of his parents and he plans to take revenge on him. When he visits the Ranger's house he finds his sister who has survived and is held there in a cage. Karak and Vuk help her escape and she joins them and all the other Free Nations in the woods.
At harvest time the foxes are almost caught because they are betrayed by the swallows and other birds. It is only Vuk's cleverness and cunning that saves them. But during the hunting season Karak falls victim to a Smooth-skin's gun so only Vuk and his sister return to live in Karak's cave alone.
Winter comes and they both feel the need to look for partners. Vuk's sister is the first to find a partner and she goes to live with him. Then Vuk fights off another fox to win a beautiful vixen bride called Csele, and the cycle of love and life begins again.
Film, TV or theatrical adaptations [link]
The novel was adapted into a very popular animated film in 1981.
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Novel
A novel is a long narrative, normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story.
The genre has also been described as possessing "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years". This view sees the novel's origins in Classical Greece and Rome, medieval, early modern romance, and the tradition of the novella. The latter, an Italian word used to describe short stories, supplied the present generic English term in the 18th century. Ian Watt, however, in The Rise of the Novel (1957) suggests that the novel first came into being in the early 18th century,
Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, is frequently cited as the first significant European novelist of the modern era; the first part of Don Quixote was published in 1605.
The romance is a closely related long prose narrative. Walter Scott defined it as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents", whereas in the novel "the events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society". However, many romances, including the historical romances of Scott,Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". Romance, as defined here, should not be confused with the genre fiction love romance or romance novel. Other European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel: "a novel is le roman, der Roman, il romanzo."
Moon of Israel (novel)
Moon of Israel is a novel by Rider Haggard, first published in 1918 by John Murray. The novel narrates the events of the Biblical Exodus from Egypt told from the perspective of a scribe named Ana.
Haggard dedicated his novel to Sir Gaston Maspero, a distinguished Egyptologist and director of Cairo Museum.
Adaptation
His novel was the basis of a script by Ladislaus Vajda, for film-director Michael Curtiz in his 1924 Austrian epic known as Die Sklavenkönigin, or "Queen of the Slaves".
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Novel (disambiguation)
A novel is a long prose narrative.
Novel may also refer to:
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Ljudevit Vukotinović
Ljudevit Farkaš Vukotinović (January 13, 1813 – March 17, 1893) was a Croatian politician, writer and naturalist.
He was born in Zagreb. He studied philosophy in Szombathely, and law in Zagreb and Bratislava, where he graduated. In 1836 he was an trainee at Tabula Banalis, and after passing the bar exam in 1836 he was appointed as a sub-notary of the Križevci County, and in 1840 as the Great Judge in Moslavina Kotar. As a representative of the Croatian Parliament, he participated in its work since 1847 where he was responsible, along with Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, for the declaration of Croatian language as the official language in 1847.
During the 1848-1849 revolution he served as the supreme commander of the armies in Križevci County, securing the defense on the river of Drava and in Međimurje, and publishing reports from the front lines in Slavenski jug. In 1849-1854 he served as the president of the Regional Court in Križevci, until his forced retirement due to his opposition to the introduction of German language as the official language. After the fall of Bach's absolutism, in 1860 he served in Ban's Conference, and in 1861-1867 as the Great Župan of the Križevci County. Although he was appointed as a representative in the Croatian Parliament as a member of the People's Party in 1871, he soon turned unionist, and has not entered the civil service ever since.
