A Dobay-ház: Regény

The narrative follows a bourgeois household in Pest where an aging, once‑poet father and his socially ambitious wife manage the marriage prospects of their innocent seventeen‑year‑old daughter. The family maintains outward luxury while cutting corners privately, and parental schemes, financial tensions, and social vanity shape the daughter's suitors — a steady bureaucrat, an elegant nobleman, and a passionate young painter. Through episodes of city life, entertainments, and parental bargaining over dowry and status, the story explores hypocrisy, class aspiration, the commodification of marriage, and the daughter's inward suffering beneath polite appearances.