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Móric Jókay de Ásva was born on February 18, 1825, in Komárom, in the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Komárno in Slovakia), to József Jókay de Ásva and Mária Pulay. Both his mother and his father were of noble families.
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Mór Jókai was an arch-romantic, with an almost Oriental imagination, and humour of the purest, rarest description. If one can imagine a combination, in almost equal parts, of Walter Scott, William Beckford, Dumas père, and Charles Dickens, together with a strong hint of Hungarian patriotism, one may perhaps form a fair idea of the character of the work of this great Hungarian romancer. Jókai was extremely prolific. It was to literature that he continued to devote most of his time, and his productiveness after 1870 was stupendous, amounting to some hundreds of volumes. Stranger still, none of this work is slipshod, and the best of it deserves to endure.
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In 1896 Hungary celebrated the completion of his fifty years of literary labor by issuing a beautiful jubilee edition of his works, for which the people of all grades of society subscribed $100,000. Every county in the country sent him memorials in the form of albums wrought in gold and precious stones, two hundred of these souvenirs filling one side of the author's large library and reception-room. Low bookcases running around the walls are filled only with his own publications, the various editions of his three hundred and fifty books making a large library in themselves. The cabinets hold sketches and paintings sent by the artists of Hungary as a jubilee gift; there are cases containing carvings, embroidery, lace, and natural-history specimens sent him by the peasants, and orders in gold and silver, studded with jewels, with autograph letters from the kings and queens of Europe. In the midst of all this inspiring display of loving appreciation, Dr. Jókai has his desk; a pile of neatly written, even manuscript ever before him, for in his seventy-fourth year he still feels the old-time passion for work calling him to it early in the morning and holding him in its spell all the day long.
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Móric Jókay de Ásva (known as Mór Jókai), outside Hungary also known as Maurus Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist.
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Móric Jókay de Ásva was born on February 18, 1825, in Komárom, in the Kingdom of Hungary (present-day Komárno in Slovakia), to József Jókay de Ásva and Mária Pulay. Both his mother and his father were of noble families.
The boy was timid and delicate, and therefore educated at home till his tenth year. In 1834 short poem was published in Társalkodó. In 1835 Mór Jókai was sent to school in Pozsony, where he learned German. Later he resumed studies at home in 1837.
Mór Jókai began studies at Református Kollégium in Pápa in 1841, where his skills in writing and painting distinguished him and he began friendship with Sándor Petőfi. In 1842-1844 he studied law in Kecskemét. In 1845 he became law apprentice. One year later he passed examination, but after winning first case, the success of his first novel caused him to abandon law career.
In 1847 he undertook editorship of Életképek with Petőfi as best known associate. During March 1848 he became one of leaders in youth activities. In 1849 he fled to Debrecen with Kossuth government, but after collapse of Revolution he hid for a time in Tardona in Bükk mountains. In 1850 Mór Jókai returned to Pest, where he devoted himself to political, editorial, newspaper, and literary activities. Also he founded Nagy Tükör in 1856, Üstökös in 1858, and A Hon in 1863. Hereafter he became member of Academy in 1858, Kisfaludy-Társaság in 1860. Jókai visited Paris twice and Italy several times. In 1876 he was elected first President of Petőfi-Társaság. Jókai was warmly received by French writers and artists during visit to Paris Exposition in 1900.
He continued to write during last years. Mór Jókai died on May 5, 1904, in Budapest.
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Quotations:
The smallest lie is a greater sin than the greatest crime honestly confessed.
Among geometrical figures you will find every conceivable shape but nothing in the shape of a heart.
This law of friendship gave a man the right to demand great things from his neighbor, and those who obeyed this law were bound together by stronger ties than any ties of kinship.
The memory of a single good deed lights our path better than the flare of a thousand torches.
On March 15, 1848, Mór Jókai met Róza Laborfalvi at a performance of József Katona's The Viceroy. On August 29, 1848, they married. Their marriage caused a scandal, several of the writer's friends (among them Sándor Petőfi) were against the marriage, mostly because Róza had a 12-year-old illegitimate daughter, Róza Benke, whose father was the actor Márton Lendvay. The opponents of the marriage were reconciled when Laborfalvi saved Jókai's life during the revolution of 1848-1849. In 1886 Mór Jókai was greatly depressed by wife's death, his care was undertaken for a time by adopted daughter.
In 1899 he created a country-wide scandal by contracting a marriage with Bella Nagy.
