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The Peasants by Wladyslaw Reymont
Wladyslaw Reymont


From the ancient Nile to the sacred Ganges and from the venerable Thames to the mighty Mississippi — the rivers of the world wind through this collection of stories from the world’s great writers.

One of Poland’s most significant 20th-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. 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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