Ago Pasa'nin hâtirâti.

Full leather bdg. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Ottoman script. 160 p. AH: 1338 = AD: 1922. On six pages, stains of tape. Ago Pasa'nin hâtirâti. Özege 160. First Edition. Karay was born in Istanbul on 15 June 1888. After studying at Galatasaray High School and Istanbul University Faculty of Law, he briefly served in the Ministry of Finance of the Ottoman Empire. During the Second Constitutional Era in 1908 he resigned from his post and published a short-living newspaper. He also wrote in literary periodicals. Being an opponent of the Committee of Union and Progress he was exiled to several cities in Anatolia. After returning to Istanbul he wrote mainly on Anatolian life style. He was a pioneer in Anatolian based literature. He attended the Freedom and Accord Party. During the reign of the Freedom and Accord Party he served as the teacher of Literature in Robert College and then the General Director of Turkish PTT. He opposed the Turkish War of Independence and at the end of the war he escaped to Beirut and Aleppo. In 1938 after the amnesty law he returned to Turkey. He resumed his writing career and wrote a number of novels. He died on 18 July 1965. Ago Pasa'nin hatirati [i. e. Memoirs of Ago Pasha] is a humor book of Karay. Rare.

Lingue: Turkish, Ottoman (1500-1928)