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He has made his fortune. But there are some worlds even money cannot open. Stanisław Wokulski has risen far beyond the life into which he was born. A former student and political exile turned successful merchant, he returns to Warsaw with wealth, ambition, and the means to shape his own future. Then he falls in love with Izabela Łęcka. Beautiful, aristocratic, and seemingly beyond his reach, Izabela belongs to a fading world of privilege that regards men like Wokulski as outsiders-no matter how rich they become. His pursuit draws him into a society divided by class, money, old loyalties, and competing visions of the future. Against the vivid streets and drawing rooms of nineteenth-century Warsaw, Bolesław Prus weaves an extraordinary story of love and obsession, social ambition and inequality, scientific progress and political memory. Both intimate and sweeping, The Doll is a penetrating portrait of a man caught between reason and desire-and of a society caught between the world it inherited and the world struggling to replace it.
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The Doll, Bolesław Prus
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- Titul
- The Doll
- Podtitul
- A Modern English Translation
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Bolesław Prus
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 776
- ISBN13
- 9798178701010
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- Anotace
- He has made his fortune. But there are some worlds even money cannot open. Stanisław Wokulski has risen far beyond the life into which he was born. A former student and political exile turned successful merchant, he returns to Warsaw with wealth, ambition, and the means to shape his own future. Then he falls in love with Izabela Łęcka. Beautiful, aristocratic, and seemingly beyond his reach, Izabela belongs to a fading world of privilege that regards men like Wokulski as outsiders-no matter how rich they become. His pursuit draws him into a society divided by class, money, old loyalties, and competing visions of the future. Against the vivid streets and drawing rooms of nineteenth-century Warsaw, Bolesław Prus weaves an extraordinary story of love and obsession, social ambition and inequality, scientific progress and political memory. Both intimate and sweeping, The Doll is a penetrating portrait of a man caught between reason and desire-and of a society caught between the world it inherited and the world struggling to replace it.