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Rafal Wojasiński
In Rafal Wojasinski's "Tefil," Rozmaryn's search for a stranger in a photo of his mother leads to the unsettling Tefil. This psychological, philosophical novel explores human existence with compelling, eccentric…
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Jozef Lobodowski
This novel is the first part of the Ukrainian Trilogy of Polish poet and novelist Jozef Lobodowski. Written between 1955 and 1960, the action of the trilogy plays out, for…
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Charles Kraszewski
In the midst of a multi-national comparative study of modern Catholic poets, Charles S. Kraszewski was more than a little surprised at the difficulty he encountered in finding a representative…
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Rossetti’s Armadillo is Charles S. Kraszewski’s attempt at fulfilling the desiderata expressed by George Steiner in the introduction to his Penguin Book of Modern Verse Translation.
Melchior Wankowicz
This book recounts the conquest of Monte Cassino, after months of intense fighting, providing the Allies with an open road for their progress through Italy to victory over the Nazis…
A volume of essays by Poles and Polish Americans remembering and commemorating the life of John Paul II.
Juliusz Slowacki
Four Plays include some of the poet’s greatest dramatic works, weave carefully crafted motifs from King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in astoundingly original works, and Kordian…
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Ignacy Krasicki
International brigades of mice and rats join forces to defend the rodents of Poland, threatened with extermination at the paws of cats favoured by the ancient ruler King Popiel, a…
Tytus Czyżewski
A Burglar of the Better Sort offers, in the English translation of Charles S. Kraszewski, the entirety of Czyzewski's surviving literary output, from surrealistic plays like Donkey and Sun in…
Ľudovit Stur
"Slavdom" is a compelling anthology from Ludovit Stur, Slovakia's renowned Romantic poet. It traces Stur's ideological journey and his commitment to preserving Slovak culture. A must-read for Slovak literature and…
Jiři Kratochvil
Can something that exists merely as a literary text, say a story, come about in real life? Can reality, to put it another way, steal something from literature, the same…
Jaroslav Hasek
Jaroslav Hasek (1883-1923) is known by readers around the world as the author of The Good Soldier Svejk, one of the greatest comic novels of all time. The Secret History…
Jan Balaban
Loss, and permanence, the ephemeral and the eternal, are common themes of Jan Balaban’s collection of short stories Maybe We’re Leaving, presented here in the English translation of Charles S…
Loss, and permanence, the ephemeral and the eternal, are common themes of Jan Balaban's collection of short stories Maybe We're Leaving, presented here in the English translation of Charles S…
Andrzej Kotański
'The world's really not the way it is, ' says the eponymous Psychiatrist in Andrzej Kotanski's wildly popular Poems about my Psychiatrist, 'it's not what it seems to us to…
Jan Kochanowski
Jan Kochanowski is not only the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz, he is also one of the great figures of the European Renaissance. Over the space of his rather…
Janko Jesensky
Janko Jesensky's 'On the Road to Freedom' is a unique WWI memoir from a Slovak perspective, detailing POW life, the Soviet Revolution, and the odyssey of the Czechoslovak Legions across…
Cyprian Kamil Norwid
'Perhaps some day I'll disappear forever, ' muses the master-builder Psymmachus in Cyprian Kamil Norwid's Cleopatra and Caesar, 'Becoming one with my work...'
‘Perhaps some day I’ll disappear forever, ’ muses the master-builder Psymmachus in Cyprian Kamil Norwid’s Cleopatra and Caesar, ‘Becoming one with my work…
Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz
An old man sifts through the broken fragments of his memory as he recounts what it was like to grow up in Warsaw during the German occupation of World War…
"Where was the Angel Going?" by Jan Balaban is a poignant exploration of exile and belonging. Its protagonist, Martin Vrana, a Czech Protestant, navigates life as an outsider. The novel's…
Jan Polkowski
Jan Polkowski's moving poetic cycle Glosy [Voices], presented here in its entirety in the English translation of C.S. Kraszewski, is a poetic monument to the dead, their families, and all…
Adam Mickiewicz
An even two hundred years have passed since the first publication of Adam Mickiewicz's Ballads and Romances - a collection of lyrics which has the same significance for Polish literature…
Zygmunt Krasiński
God hath denied me that angelic measure / Without which no man sees in me the poet, writes Zygmunt Krasinski in one of his most recognisable lyrics. Yet while it…
Krasiński Zygmunt
Tytus Czyżewski
A Burglar of the Better Sort offers, in the English translation of Charles S. Kraszewski, the entirety of Czyzewski’s surviving literary output, from surrealistic plays like Donkey and Sun in…
Rafal Wojasiński
Awarded the prestigious Marek Nowakowski Prize for 2019, Olanda introduces us to a world we glimpse only through the window of our train, as we hurry from one important city…
Jiři Kratochvil
Ľudovit Stur
