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The Peasants
by Wladyslaw Reymont, Penguin Classics, 16.99
WLADISLAW REYMONT’s famous four-volume 900-page magnum opus The Peasants (Chlopi) has been translated into English for the first time, over a century since it was first published in the author’s native Polish language.
The novel, for which Reymont received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1924, is a fictional tale set during the late 19th century in the village of Lipce in Congress Poland — a part of the country under Russian control at the time.
The Peasants chronicles the goings-on within Lipce over the course of a year, with each volume corresponding to a season.
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