The Peasants

By Władysław Stanisław Reymont

Book Overview

One of Poland's most significant twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature A Penguin Classic In the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna, a widower and the village's 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, hot-blooded Mateusz, gentle Witek ... Richly lyrical and thrillingly realist, at turns comic, tragic and reflective, Wladyslaw Reymont's magnum opus is a love song to a lasting dream of rural Poland, and to the eternal, timeless matters of the heart.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0241524245
• ISBN13: 9780241524244
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Length: 976 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"