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Budapest: Ráth Mór, 1884. First edition (in this form). In publisher's green cloth, with ornate spine and front panel. Ribbon marker. Pages yellowed, due to aging. Otherwise in fine condition.. First edition (in this form). In publisher's green cloth, with ornate spine and front panel. Ribbon marker. [2], [I]-XI, [1], [1]-106; [2], [I]-VII, [1], [1]-208; [2], [I]-VII, [1], [1]-133, [1] p. 1. A szent-iván éji álom [A Midsummer Night's Dream]. Third edition. This is the first Hungarian translation directly from English. Arany completed the translation in 1863, the play was premiered in 1864 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. The translation was first published in the same year in the first volume of Shakspeare szinművei (Shakespeare's Plays; published between 1867 and 1878). Arany made an earlier translation after Christoph Martin Wieland's German translation, but that was never published. 2. Hamlet, dán királyfi [The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of…

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Russian: Сон смешного человека) is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who believes nothing has any value and is ripe with existential insights into human life and a reformation of spirit.

First editions can be identified by their print date and original publisher, Petrograd, Russkoye Bogatstvo.