ABOUT THIS BOOK

This is the first English-language collection of stories by the nineteenth-century writer Boleslaw Prus, who has been called the greatest Polish novelist of all time. This new book, containing twelve of his classic short pieces, explores the depth of thought, human warmth, powers of observation, and technical excellence for which he has been justly praised.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

BOLESLAV PRUS (1847–1912) was a renowned Polish writer and newspaper columnist. His novels include The Outpost, The Doll, The New Woman, and Pharoah.

BILL JOHNSTON is Henry Remak Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University. He has published about thirty book-length translations of Polish literature, including Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania (winner of the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry) and Tomasz Różycki's Twelve Stations, winner of the 2016 Found in Translation Award).

REVIEWS

"Nothing should discourage one from reading these tales, which form a bridge from a painful present to a more luminous time." —Choice

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"Prus proves himself one of the most attractive and accomplished storytellers of his time." —Kirkus Reviews

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"Having any idea of what Polish literature is about without being familiar with at least a handful of short stories of Prus is exactly as unthinkable as understanding Russian literature without knowing any short story by Chekhov." —Stanislaw Baranczak

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