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Pan Tadeusz

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First published: 1834
Pages: 379

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Poland's national epic began as an exile's act of memory. Writing in Paris in the 1830s, Adam Mickiewicz set his long narrative poem in the Lithuanian countryside of his youth, in the years just before Napoleon's march on Russia stirred hopes of national freedom. The story turns on a feud between two gentry families, a buried grievance over a castle, and the tender romance of young Tadeusz and Zosia, all told with warmth, humor, and a deep love for a vanishing way of life. Its famous opening lines, an address to a lost homeland, are known to every Polish schoolchild. Maude Ashurst Biggs rendered the verse into English. This edition is free to read as a PDF and EPUB.

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Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, and political activist, widely regarded as Poland's national bard and a central figure of Romanticism in Central Europe. Exiled by Russian authorities for his patriotic activity, he spent much of his life abroad, writing of the homeland he could not return to.