# St. Peter's Umbrella: A Novel

Author: Mikszáth, Kálmán, 1847-1910; Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet), 1854-1909 [Author of introduction, etc.]; Worswick, B. W. [Translator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31945

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=St.+Peter%27s+Umbrella%3A+A+Novel+Miksz%C3%A1th&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Kálmán Mikszáth, perhaps the most purely national, certainly, after Jókai, the most popular of all the Magyar novelists, was born at Szklabonya, in the county of Nográd, on January 16th, 1849. Educated at Rimaszombáth and Pest, he adopted the legal profession, and settled down as a magistrate in his native county, where his family had for generations lived the placid, patriarchal life of small country squires. A shrewd observer, with a strong satirical bent and an ardent love of letters, the young advocate made his _début_ as an author, at the age of twenty-five, with a volume of short stories, which failed, however, to catch the public taste. Shortly afterward he flitted to Szeged, and c...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/st-peter-s-umbrella-a-novel-31945/chapters/4/index.md)