Polish Manuscripts
Title | Polish Manuscripts PDF eBook |
Author | Dalairac (M., François-Paulin) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1700 |
Genre | Poland |
ISBN |
Voynich Manuscript
Title | Voynich Manuscript PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2015-12-11 |
Genre | Ciphers |
ISBN | 9781626542174 |
A facsimile of an object of unknown authorship that has been the source of study and speculation for centuries and remains undecipherable to this day.
Polish Manuscripts
Title | Polish Manuscripts PDF eBook |
Author | Dalairac (M., François-Paulin) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1700 |
Genre | Poland |
ISBN |
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Title | The Manuscript Found in Saragossa PDF eBook |
Author | Jan Potocki |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 906 |
Release | 1996-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0140445803 |
Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales of characters transformed through disguise, magic and illusion, of honour and cowardice, of hauntings and seductions, leap forth to create a vibrant polyphony of human voices. Jan Potocki (1761-1812) used a range of literary styles - gothic, picaresque, adventure, pastoral, erotica - in his novel of stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provides entertainment on an epic scale.
Anonima tzw. Galla kronika czyli Dzieje ksi???t i w?adc¢w polskich
Title | Anonima tzw. Galla kronika czyli Dzieje ksi???t i w?adc¢w polskich PDF eBook |
Author | Gallus (Anonymus) |
Publisher | Central European University Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9639241407 |
Written around 1112-1116, the Chronicles and Deeds is the oldest narrative source from Poland. This work tells the ancient history of Poland down to the reign of Boleslaw III.
Everything I Don't Know
Title | Everything I Don't Know PDF eBook |
Author | Jerzy Ficowski |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2021-09-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781954218994 |
Poetry. Jewish Studies. What good luck to finally have in English the writings of the brilliant Jerzy Ficowski, the poet who lived at least seventeen lives, fighting in the Warsaw Uprising, and later traveling for years with the Roma people through the roads of Poland, opposing his government, and watching the authorities ban his poems, a poet who translated from Spanish and Romanian and Yiddish and Roma, but most of all from the tongue of silence...Beautifully translated by Jennifer Grotz and Piotr Sommer, these poems also document the tragedy of the Holocaust, with the direct and uncompromising voice with which he reminds us of the great poets such as Różewicz and Świrszczyńska, while remaining, all the while, himself. Read a piece such as 'I was unable to save / a single life' in a bookstore, and I guarantee you will want to take this book with you, to keep it for the rest of your life.--Ilya Kaminsky Thanks to these brilliant, careful, inspired translations, we can now read Jerzy Ficowski, one of Poland's best kept secrets. This book is a marvel in its weird clarity and extraordinary range of styles and subjects, from the perfectly unassuming paradox of the title, all the way through to its final poems about bumblebees and Satie and mother nature, who scratches herself and 'shudders / with a tsunami.' How fortunate we are to have the unassailable evidence that all along, there was yet another genius of 20th century Polish poetry.--Matthew Zapruder
Polish Manuscripts: Or The Secret History of the Reign of John Sobieski, the III. of that Name, K. of Poland
Title | Polish Manuscripts: Or The Secret History of the Reign of John Sobieski, the III. of that Name, K. of Poland PDF eBook |
Author | Dalairac (M., François-Paulin) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1700 |
Genre | Poland |
ISBN |