Agria 41. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2005)

Király Júlia: Kéziratok, jegyzetek és feljegyzések a Dobó István Vármúzeum Gárdonyi hagyatékában IV.

those founded on weak impulses. Manuscripts survive in the bequest of eight short stories, some of which appear in several versions. Good Heavens, Biri! is the most representative Gárdonyi novella. In his monograph József Gárdonyi is not forthcoming on the origins of the novel, and apart from the immediate sources, we don't know anything about it. The bequest does not contain much further evidence apart from a single note containing observations about the novella. The Right Honourable Gárdonyi wrote as a form of respite during the writing of "Egri csillagok" (a title variously translated as Eclipse of the Crescent Moon or The Stars of Eger). On the first day he wrote twelve pages to which he gave the title The Last Attila (Az utolsó Attila). Several other manuscripts also survive of the novella. The book was published by Singer and Wolfner in 1905. 405