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The Peasants
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Peasants
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Wladyslaw Reymont
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Translated by Anna Zaranko
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:976 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 135 |
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| Category/Genre | Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780241568064
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| Classifications | Dewey:891.8533 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Penguin Books Ltd
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| Imprint |
Penguin Classics
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| Publication Date |
3 November 2022 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
One of Poland's most significant twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower and the village's wealthiest farmer, has taken the young and beautiful Jagusia as his bride -- but she only has eyes for his impetuous son Antek. Over the course of four seasons -- Autumn to Summer -- the tangled skein of their story unravels, watched eagerly by the other peasants- the gossip Jagustynka, pious Roch, hot-blooded Mateusz, gentle Witek ... Richly lyrical and thrillingly realist, at turns comic, tragic and reflective, Wladyslaw Reymont's magnum opus is a love song to a lasting dream of rural Poland, and to the eternal, timeless matters of the heart.
Author Biography
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (7 May 1867 - 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for his four-volume epic The Peasants (Chlopi), which was original published between 1904 and 1909. Anna Zaranko is a Polish-English translator based in the UK. She has translated Kornel Filipowicz's The Memoir of an Anti-Hero, for which she received the Found in Translation award in 2020.
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