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The first English-language collection of stories by the nineteenth-century writer Boleslaw Prus, who has been called the greatest Polish novelist of all time. This book, containing twelve of his classic short pieces, explores the depth of thought, human warmth, powers of observation, and technical excellence for which he has been justly praised.
About the author
BOLESLAV PRUS (1847-1912) was a renowned Polish writer and newspaper columnist. His novels include
The Outpost,
The Doll,
The New Woman, and
Pharoah.
BILL JOHNSTON is Henry Remak Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He has published about thirty book-length translations of Polish literature, including Adam Mickiewicz's
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania (winner of the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry) and Tomasz Różycki's
Twelve Stations, winner of the 2016 Found in Translation Award).
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The first English-language collection of stories by the nineteenth-century writer Boleslaw Prus, who has been called the greatest Polish novelist of all time. This book, containing twelve of his classic short pieces, explores the depth of thought, human warmth, powers of observation, and technical excellence for which he has been justly praised.
