- History, Fiction, Poland, Swedish-Polish War, 1655-1660
This is Volume 2 of the Curtin translation, first published in 1898. This is NOT the more modern Kuniczak translation of 1991 that many people prefer, despite what you can see as the book cover on the screen.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
- First published
- 1888
- Pages
- 614
- Publisher
- Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, Zalład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Wydawn. Zakładu Narodowego im. Ossolińskich
- Editions
- 149
- Language
- French, yid, Russian, Polish
- ISBN
- 9781105219641
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“THE NEW YEAR came in the midst of a cold, dry Winter that covered all of Zmudya with a deep white quilt.”
Polnischer Schriftsteller und Träger des Literaturnobelpreises. Polish epic novelist and 1905 Nobel laureate for Literature
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