The Peasants by Wladyslaw Reymont Paperback Book 9780241524244

One of Polands most engrossing twentiethcentury epics by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn the village of Lipce scandal romance and drama crackle in every hearth Boryna a widower and the villages wealthiest farmer has taken the young and beautiful Jagusia as his bride but she only has eyes for his impetuous son Antek Over the course of four seasons Autumn to Summer the tangled skein of their story unravels watched eagerly by the other peasants the gossip Jagustynka pious Roch hotblooded Mateusz gentle Witek Richly lyrical and thrillingly realist at turns comic tragic and reflective Wladyslaw Reymonts magnum opus is a love song to a lasting dream of rural Poland and to the eternal timeless matters of the heart