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Availability:In StockContributor:Boleslaw Prus, Stanislaw Baranczak (Introduction by), David Welsh (Translator)Series:New York Review Books ClassicsPublish date:2011-02-08Pages:704
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590173831ISBN-10:159017383XUPC:9781590173831Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, RomanceBook Topic:HistoricalSize:7.94 x 5.11 x 1.44 inchesWeight:1.4903Product ID:SC4GFXGRF7
The Doll
Boleslaw Prus is often compared to Chekhov, and Prus's masterpiece might be described as an intimate epic, a beautifully detailed, utterly absorbing exploration of life in late-nineteenth-century Warsaw, which is also a prophetic reckoning with some of the social forces--imperialism, nationalism, anti-Semitism among them--that would soon convulse Europe as never before. But The Doll is above all...
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9781590173831ISBN-10:159017383XUPC:9781590173831Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, RomanceBook Topic:HistoricalSize:7.94 x 5.11 x 1.44 inchesWeight:1.4903Product ID:SC4GFXGRF7
BOLESLAW PRUS (1847-1912) was born Aleksander Glowacki in the provincial town of Hrubieszów, Poland. His mother died in 1850; his father, an estate steward of noble birth (the author's pen name is a reference to the family's origin near the Prussian border), died six years later, leaving him in the care of relatives in Pulawy and Lublin. In 1862, he moved to Kielce with his older brother Leon, a...
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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