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An interesting book presenting the oeuvre of puppet designer Vera Bródy, a book and DVD on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 published as a special issue of BBC History, and a volume of studies entitled Propaganda – politika, hétköznapi és magas kultúra, művészet és média a Nagy Háborúban (Propaganda – Politics, Everyday and High Culture, Art and Media in the Great War). Three books published in cooperation of NSZL and other publishers.

As a result of the cooperation of NSZL and Kossuth Publishing House, a book with a DVD supplement edited by János Rainer M., Head of NSZL’s 1956 Institute was published. The publication focuses on the preliminaries, course and aftermath of what happened sixty years ago. It takes us to places where all those things had happened and gives a portrait of well-known and anonymous main characters, taking into account versions of revolutionary action.

Preparing for procreation, the elephant goes East, near Paradise where mandrake is growing. The female animal eats from the fruit and she offers it to her mate. While he is eating, she seduces him and gets pregnant. The baby is born in water where her enemy, the dragon cannot attack her. – Bestiarium Zircense takes up the last sixteen pages of a bulky medieval book. The facsimile edition describing real and imaginary beings will be presented in Zirc in October 13, 2016.

The Theater Collection of National Széchényi Library invites you to the presentation ceremony of a source edition of the first Hungarian translations of King Lear, published in the ReTextum series of Reciti Publishing House in the 400th memorial year of William Shakespeare’s death. The event will start at 5 p.m. on Wednesday October 12, 2016.