After his father's death when Jokai was 12, his family had meant him to follow the law, his fathers profession, and accordingly the youth, always singularly assiduous, plodded conscientiously through the usual curriculum at Kecskemét and Pest (part of what we call Budapest), and as a full-blown advocate actually succeeded in winning his first case.
Jokai lived for the next fourteen years the life of a political suspect.
Yet this was perhaps the most glorious period of his existence, for during it he devoted himself to the rehabilitation of the proscribed and humiliated Magyar language, composing in it no fewer than thirty great romances, besides innumerable volumes of tales, essays, criticisms and faceti.
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