... and not as a stranger is a romantic novel, very popular in its time, at the top of the list of best-selling novels in America in 1954. It was screened in 1955, produced and directed by the famous director Stanley Kramer.
Twelve men in generational succession represent the main characters of this magnificent family saga that spans the last three hundred years of Hungarian history.
The tea ceremony, arranging flowers, arranging gardens and the art of creating beautiful porcelain stand in the background of this novel as symbols of the eternal and timeless in human creativity.
A tipsy cabaret dancer from the Picratt nightclub entered the police station and excitedly announced that she had heard two men at the next table in the bar conspire to kill a countess, an unknown countess.