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Title: Pan Tadeusz/English and Polish Text by Adam Mickiewicz, Kenneth R. MacKenzie, Kennety R. MacKenzie ISBN: 0-7818-0033-1 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: September, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "Poland Is Not Dead!"
Comment: This is an epic poem of some ten thousand lines composed by, arguably, Poland's greatest poet. It is a bucolic tale of country life with the background of the preparations for Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. It's also a love story of sorts, with undertones of "Romeo and Juliet". There are star-crossed lovers, feuding families, comical characters, loyal retainers, and a mysterious begging friar. It's all quite well done, and even though I'm not particularly into sing-songy rhyming verse, the attraction of the story, and it's thinly-veiled air of Polish patriotism, kept me reading on to the end. If you enjoy little-known Polish literature (at least little-known in this country) you will enjoy this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Landmark of Polish literature
Comment: Mickiewicz's 'Pan Tadeusz' is a very well written and engaging account of Lithuanian provincial life during the Napoleonic Era. Yet, it does fall short of the level of masterpiece, and 'Pan Tadeusz' doesn't possess quite the same timeless quality as Pushkin's 'Eugene Onegin' or Goethe's and Heine's epic poetry. Yet, I highly recommend it, and it is well worth the read, both for its glimpse into a long-lost time and place and also for Mickiewicz's elegant prosy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic English translation
Comment: This Polish masterpiece reads in English rendition as it was written in English in the first place ! I thoroughly enjoyed over again the story, even more so than in original Polish. Kenneth McKenzie has done a superb job to keep the rhytm, rime and the emotions so close to the original. This timeless piece is a must to everyone who enjoys a great reading adventure, where the highest human values are treasured. Our contemporary writers and poets can only dream to approach the greatness of Adam Mickiewicz. To bad that this book is so little known in the world.
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Title: Treasury of Love Poems by Adam Mickiewicz: In Polish and English by Adam Mickiewicz, Krystyna Olszer ISBN: 0781806526 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Polish Way: A Thousand-Year History of the Poles and Their Culture by Adam Zamoyski ISBN: 0781802008 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: December, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Teutonic Knights by Henryk Sienkiewicz ISBN: 0781804337 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz ISBN: 0679728562 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 11 August, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Postwar Polish Poetry: An Anthology by Czeslaw Milosz, Czesaw Miosz ISBN: 0520044762 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: February, 1984 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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