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By Fire and Sword (1884) is an epic historical novel about the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648–1651). It follows the adventures of the knight Jan Skrzetuski, his love for Helena, and the bloody conflicts between Poles, Cossacks, and Tatars on the Ukrainian ste
The third part of the epic tetralogy The Peasants. Spring brings the awakening of nature, but also new conflicts in the village of Lipce: the culmination of a love triangle, family drama and social tensions. The continuation of Nobel's epic of Polish peas
The anthology, edited and translated by Zdravko Malić, a leading Croatian Polish scholar and founder of the Polish Language Department at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zagreb, represents a key selection of Polish short fiction from the 20th century.
Through the fate of the ambitious Zenon Ziembiewicz, the novel Granica depicts the transgression of moral, social and human boundaries – careerism, class differences and the price of compromise in interwar Polish society.
Konstanty Willemann, a morphine addict and cynic torn between Polish and German identity, tries to survive September 1939 and the war, running away from history, his mother, women and himself.
Young Edek lives with his elderly father who tries to keep his son by his side. The boy's longing for freedom and a girl clashes with his father's possessiveness. The pigeons symbolize unattainable freedom. The conflict leads to a tragic ending.