Mór Jókai ~11 hr read

In a coal-mining region of nineteenth-century Hungary, an idealistic industrialist battles greedy speculators and looming social upheaval, the great 'Black Diamonds.'

Mór Jókai's 1870 novel, by Hungary's foremost Romantic storyteller, is a sweeping adventure of industry, love, and apocalyptic vision set among the black diamonds of coal. Grand, imaginative, richly told. Read it for an epic from a master novelist, blending realism with prophetic flights of the fantastic.

In its time

Published in 1870, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

~11 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).