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683 pages • first pub 1890 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781590173831
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publication date: 08 February 2011
Description
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 with so...
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683 pages • first pub 1890 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781590173831
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publication date: 08 February 2011
Description
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 with so...