“The Transylvanian Trilogy” by Miklos Banffy, the Tolstoy of early 20th Century Hungary. It has a beautiful, tragic love story, a cast of beguiling characters—including a frustrated aviation pioneer—and stunning rural landscapes. I have read the trilogy twice. It is set in the years leading up to WWI. The main character is a minor nobleman who is caught between upholding tradition and the realization that his rural part of Austria-Hungary is badly in need of reform.