Reymont, Wladyslaw Stani – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:05:50 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Reymont, Wladyslaw Stani – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The Peasants https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-peasants/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=27179 One of Poland’s most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower and the village’s wealthiest farmer, has taken the young and beautiful Jagusia as his bride – but she only has eyes for his impetuous son Antek. Over the course of four seasons – Autumn to Summer – the tangled skein of their story unravels, watched eagerly by the other peasants: the gossip Jagustynka, pious Roch, hot-blooded Mateusz, gentle Witek … Richly lyrical and thrillingly realist, at turns comic, tragic and reflective, Wladyslaw Reymont’s magnum opus is a love song to a lasting dream of rural Poland, and to the eternal, timeless matters of the heart.

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