The 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Polish author Wladyslaw Reymont "for his great national epic, The Peasants". He was the second Polish recipient of the literature prize after Henr
"for his great national epic, The Peasants"
The Peasants
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The Peasants is a novel written by the Polish author Władysław Reymont in four parts between 1904 and 1909. He started writing it in 1897, but because of a railway accident and health problems, it too
1924 Nobel Prize in Literature
…Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (1867–1925) wrote novels and short stories that was strongly influenced by naturalism. He is best known for Chłopi ("The Peasants", 1904–1909), a novel in four volumes that chronicles peasant life in Poland during the four seasons of the year, for which he specifically was awarded…
Title page of the first edition, 1904
Władysław Reymont, ca 1897