Tales by Polish Authors

Tales by Polish Authors PDF Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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As the title suggests, the following book is an anthology of tales borne from the minds of Polish authors. The works of four of the most popular names of the 19th and 20th centuries are featured inside: Henryk Sienkiewicz, Stefan Żeromski, Adam Szymański, and Wacław Sieroszewski.

Tales by Polish Authors

Tales by Polish Authors PDF Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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As the title suggests, the following book is an anthology of tales borne from the minds of Polish authors. The works of four of the most popular names of the 19th and 20th centuries are featured inside: Henryk Sienkiewicz, Stefan Żeromski, Adam Szymański, and Wacław Sieroszewski.

Tales by Polish Authors

Tales by Polish Authors PDF Author: Коллектив авторов
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040852975
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :

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More Tales by Polish Authors

More Tales by Polish Authors PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Tales by Polish Authors

Tales by Polish Authors PDF Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Pharaoh

Pharaoh PDF Author: Bolesław Prus
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788388177019
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 627

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First published in 1896, 'Pharaoh' is considered one of the great novels of Polish literature. The account of Rames XIII (who never existed) set in Egypt of eleven centuries before Christ, 'Pharaoh' is the timeless and universal story of the struggle for power, no less true for 19th century Poland and today.

Polish Fairy Tales

Polish Fairy Tales PDF Author: Antoni Józef Gliński
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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History of a Disappearance

History of a Disappearance PDF Author: Filip Springer
Publisher: Restless Books
ISBN: 1632061163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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Lying at the crucible of Central Europe, the Silesian village of Kupferberg suffered the violence of the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, the World War I. After Stalin's post-World War II redrawing of Poland's borders, Kupferberg became Miedzianka, a town settled by displaced people from all over Poland and a new center of the Eastern Bloc's uranium-mining industry. Decades of neglect and environmental degradation led to the town being declared uninhabitable, and the population was evacuated. Today, it exists only in ruins, with barely a hundred people living on the unstable ground above its collapsing mines. Springer catalogs the lost human elements: the long-departed tailor and deceased shopkeeper; the parties, now silenced, that used to fill the streets with shouts and laughter, and the once-beautiful cemetery, with gravestones upended by tractors and human bones scattered by dogs. In Miedzianka, Springer sees a microcosm of European history, and a powerful narrative of how the ghosts of the past continue to haunt us in the present--Provided by the publisher.

Selected Polish Tales

Selected Polish Tales PDF Author:
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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The Shadow of the Sun

The Shadow of the Sun PDF Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307367096
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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A moving portrait of Africa from Poland's most celebrated foreign correspondent - a masterpiece from a modern master. Famous for being in the wrong places at just the right times, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa in 1957, at the beginning of the end of colonial rule - the "sometimes dramatic and painful, sometimes enjoyable and jubilant" rebirth of a continent. The Shadow of the Sun sums up the author's experiences ("the record of a 40-year marriage") in this place that became the central obsession of his remarkable career. From the hopeful years of independence through the bloody disintegration of places like Nigeria, Rwanda and Angola, Kapuscinski recounts great social and political changes through the prism of the ordinary African. He examines the rough-and-ready physical world and identifies the true geography of Africa: a little-understood spiritual universe, an African way of being. He looks also at Africa in the wake of two epoch-making changes: the arrival of AIDS and the definitive departure of the white man. Kapuscinski's rare humanity invests his subjects with a grandeur and a dignity unmatched by any other writer on the Third World, and his unique ability to discern the universal in the particular has never been more powerfully displayed than in this work.

The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy

The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy PDF Author: Wiesiek Powaga
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Poland's strong Catholic faith engendered in its literature a lively awareness of the Devil and a love of the supernatural. The Devil is a popular figure in Polish fantastic fiction, and we see him in many different roles and guises: from the personification of pure malice to a pitiful, unfortunate individual and even a patriotic hero. The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy offers the best of this tradition from the Romantics to the new generation of authors writing in post-communist Poland.