About the book: 1977 / The volume of "Selected" by the famous Hungarian writer Peter Veres (1897-1970) includes works of the last, most mature stage of his work - already known to Soviet readers the story “The Bad Wife” (1954), dedicated to moral problems - the clash of healthy, working principles of life with lightweight egoistic-philistine inclinations, and stories whose theme is the life of the Hungarian peasantry from the beginning of the century to the 50s.