Boleslaw Prus - Böcker

This famous historical novel of Boleslaw Prus plays in the Ancient Egypt at the end of the 20th dynasty under the reign of the imaginary pharaohs Rameses XII and Rameses XIII.

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Boleslaw Prus (1847-1912), born Aleksander Glowacki, was a Polish journalist and novelist known especially for his novels The Doll and The Pharaoh and the Priest (1902). An indelible mark was left on Prus by his experiences as a 15- year-old soldi...

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Boleslaw Prus (1847-1912), born Aleksander Glowacki, was a Polish journalist and novelist known especially for his novels The Doll (1890) and The Pharaoh and the Priest (1897). An indelible mark was left on Prus by his experiences as a 15-year-old...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best effor...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best effor...

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Egypt circa 1100 BCE - trouble comes to the highest spheres of government of this ancient empire. Pharaoh's rule has been rendered largely symbolic. The kingdom's nobility has fallen on hard times. Subjected to abuse and misery, the masses of comm...

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It is Egypt, circa 1100 BCE- trouble comes to the highest spheres of power in this most ancient of governments. Pharaoh's rule has been usurped by Egypt's priesthood, the kingdom's nobility has fallen on hard times, the justice system is broken, w...

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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...

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Boleslaw Prus is often compared to Chekhov, and Prus’s masterpiece might be described as an intimate epic, a beautifully detailed, utterly absorbing exploration of life in late-nineteenth-century Warsaw, which is also a prophetic reckoning w...

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author's brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficu...

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Quand les parents sont fatigus des rvolutions, leurs enfants reprennent le flambeau : chaque gnration sa rvolte ou insurrection ! Ce roman politique raconte, sur fond de la rvolution polonaise des annes 1905-1907, les baroques tribulations des "Ch...

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Huikea romaani 1800-luvun Puolasta. Maanviljelijä Slimakin perhe elää Puolan köyhällä maaseudulla. Olot ovat karut, ja harva kyläläinen osaa edes lukea. Ilmassa on kuitenkin muutoksen tuulia. Alueelle rakennetaan rautatietä, ja saksalaisia asukkai...

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