One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century 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 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.
