Bøger af Boleslaw Prus

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IN the northeastern corner of Africa lies Egypt, that land of most ancient civilization. Three, four, and even five thousand years ago, when the savages of Central Europe wore untanned skins for clothing and were cave-dwellers, Egypt had a high social organization, agriculture, crafts, and literature. Above all, it carried out engineering works and reared immense buildings, the remnants of which rouse admiration in specialists of our day.

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Lalka is the second of four major novels by the Polish writer Boleslaw Prus. It was composed for periodical serialization in 1887-89 and appeared in book form in 1890. The Doll has been regarded by some, including Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz, as the greatest Polish novel. According to Prus biographer Zygmunt Szweykowski, it may be unique in 19th-century world literature as a comprehensive, compelling picture of an entire society. While The Doll takes its fortuitous title from a minor episode involving a stolen toy, readers commonly assume that it refers to the principal female character, the young aristocrat Izabela Lecka.

Placówka was the first of four major novels by the Polish writer Boleslaw Prus. The author, writing in a Poland that had been partitioned a century earlier by Russia, Prussia and Austria, sought to bring attention to the plight of rural Poland, which had to contend with poverty, ignorance, neglect by the country's upper crust, and colonization by German settlers backed by Otto von Bismarck's German government.

""Lalka V2: Powie���������"" to powie��������� napisana przez Boles�����awa Prusa w 1897 roku. Jest to druga cz������������� powie�����ci ""Lalka"", kt������ra opowiada histori���� Stanis�����awa Wokulskiego, bogatego kupca, kt������ry zakochuje si���� w Izabeli ���������ckiej, c������rce arystokraty. W drugiej cz���������ci powie�����ci Wokulski stara si���� zdoby���� serce Izabeli, ale jego plany zostaj���� pokrzy�����owane przez jej matk����, kt������ra chce wyda���� c������rk���� za m��������� za innego arystokrat����. Wokulski zaczyna tak�����e mie���� problemy z biznesem i jego �����ycie zaczyna si���� sypa����. Powie��������� porusza tematy zwi����zane z klasami spo�����ecznymi, mi�����o�����ci���� i ambicj����.This Book Is In Polish.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

""Faraon V2"" to drugi tom powie�����ci autorstwa Boles�����awa Prusa, wydanej w 1897 roku. Akcja rozgrywa si���� w staro�����ytnym Egipcie, za panowania faraona Ramsesa XIII. G�����������wnym bohaterem jest faraon Cheops, kt������ry stara si���� utrzyma���� w�����adz���� w swoim kr������lestwie, mimo licznych intryg i spisk������w. W ksi���������ce pojawiaj���� si���� r������wnie����� inne postacie, takie jak ksi������������� Hiram z Tyru, kt������ry przybywa do Egiptu, by nawi����za���� handlowe kontakty, oraz pi����kna ksi���������niczka Nitokris, w kt������rej Cheops jest zakochany. Powie��������� porusza wiele temat������w, takich jak polityka, religia, mi�����o���������, a tak�����e �����ycie codzienne Egipcjan. ""Faraon V2"" to klasyczna powie��������� historyczna, kt������ra wci��������� cieszy si���� du��������� popularno�����ci���� w�����r������d czytelnik������w.This Book Is In Polish.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Faraon is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Boleslaw Prus (1847-1912). Composed over a year in 1894-95, it was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on the ground that they inevitably distort history. Pharaoh has been described by Czeslaw Milosz as a "novel on... mechanism[s] of state power and, as such, ... probably unique in world literature of the nineteenth century.... Prus, [in] selecting the reign of 'Pharaoh Ramses XIII' in the eleventh century BCE, sought a perspective that was detached from... pressures of [topicality] and censorship. Through his analysis of the dynamics of an ancient Egyptian society, he... suggest[s] an archetype of the struggle for power that goes on within any state."

This volume contains the major short stories of Boleslaw Prus, a leading figure in the history of Polish literature and philosophy and a distinctive voice in world literature. As a 15-year-old he joined the Polish 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia. Shortly after his 16th birthday, he suffered severe battle injuries. Five months later he was imprisoned for his part in the Uprising. These early experiences may have precipitated the panic disorder and agoraphobia that would dog him through life, and shaped his opposition to attempting to regain Poland's independence by force of arms.

Egypt 1100 BCE - Old age and disease have weakened Pharaoh's already tenuous grip on power, allowing for Egypt's archpriests to take partial control of the government. But their heavy-handed policies have plunged the kingdom into financial straits and the debasement of human rights. Seeking to avert a crisis, 22-year-old Crown Prince Ramses issues directives to ease the peoples' suffering and at the same time to gain funds for what promises to be his own financially strapped reign. However, the entrenched High Council of Archpriests thwarts his efforts. Conflict ensues. The archpriests have but a few allies, the wealth of the temples, and an unusually smart organizing ability. The rest of the nation - the army, police, most government officials and even many of the younger priests - all side with the young ruler. Uneven as the odds are the outcome is far from certain, and the consequent power struggle threatens the kingdom with the collapse of the social order.The Throne of Osiris is a saga of intrigue and subterfuge-an epic account of crisis in government and the struggle for dominance. This classic tale offers a rich depiction of life in ancient Egypt, the structure of its society, its religious beliefs and traditions. With its numerous parallels to today's world, it is a study in the raw mechanisms of power and explores the attempts of the young to govern and to right society's wrongs.

Bołeslaw 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 some of the social forces—imperialism, nationalism, anti-Semitism among them—that would soon convulse Europe as never before. But The Doll is above all a brilliant novel of character, dramatizing conflicting ideas through the various convictions, ambitions, confusions, and frustrations of an extensive and varied cast. At the center of the book are three men from three different generations. Prus’s fatally flawed hero is Wokulski, a successful businessman who yearns for recognition from Poland’s decadent aristocracy and falls desperately in love with the highborn, glacially beautiful Izabela. Wokulski’s story is intertwined with those of the incorrigibly romantic old clerk Rzecki, nostalgic for the revolutions of 1848, and of the bright young scientist Ochocki, who dreams of a future full of flying machines and other marvels, making for a book of great scope and richness that is, as Stanisław Barańczak writes in his introduction, at once “an old-fashioned yet still fascinating love story . . . , a still topical diagnosis of society’s ills, and a forceful yet subtle portrayal of a tragically doomed man."