The Doll
$39.88
- Paperback
704 pages
- Release Date
8 February 2011
Summary
The Doll is a classic of Polish literature, a novel that takes in the whole nineteenth century and looks ahead to modern questions of empire, revolution, anti-Semitism, and socialism. Yet it is less a novel of ideas than a novel of people who have ideas, characters as vivid and memorable as any in Dickens.
As the novel opens in Warsaw in 1878, our hero, Wokulski, having risen from rags to riches now seeks the respect of the aristocracy and, in particular, the love of the cold and sche…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590173831 |
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| ISBN-10: | 159017383X |
| Author: | Boleslaw Prus, Stanislaw Baranczak |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 704 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 8 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 700g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 201mm |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
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Critics Review
Balances notions of love with genuine feelings of concern and remorse. This singular and timeless Polish masterpiece stands among world literature’s enduring achievements. Irish Times
Boleslaw Prus
Boleslaw Prus (1847-1912) was the pseudonym of Aleksander Glowacki, Poland’s prominent realist writer and essayist. Three of his other major novels-The Outpost, The Emancipated, and Pharaoh-have also been translated into English.
Stanislaw Baranczak is a poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, and lecturer. His book Chirurgiczna Precyzja (Surgical Precision) won the 1999 Nike Award.
David Welsh’s translations include A Dreambook for Our Time by Tadeusz Konwicki, Cloak of Illusion by Stanislaw Dygat, and Black Torrent by Leopold Buczkowski.
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