TY  - BOOK
AU  - Prus,Bolesław
AU  - Baranczak,Stanistaw
AU  - Welsh,David J.
TI  - The Doll
T2  - CEU Press Classics (formerly Central European Classics)
SN  - 9789633865378
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Budapest, New York : 
PB  - Central European University Press, 
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Poland
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; THE DOLL --; I The Firm of J. Mincel and S. Wokulski Seen Through a Bottle --; II The Reign of an Old Clerk --; III The Journal of the Old Clerk --; IV The Return --; V The Démocratisation of a Gentleman and Dreams of a Society Lady --; VI How New People Appear on the Old Horizon --; VII The Dove Goes Out to Encounter the Serpent --; VIII Meditations --; IX Footbridges on which People of Various Worlds Meet --; X The Journal of the Old Clerk --; XI Old Dreams and New Acquaintances --; XII Travels on Behalf of Someone Else --; XIII Gentlefolk at Play --; XIV Girlish Dreams --; XV How a Human Soul is Devastated by Passion and by Common Sense --; XVI 'She', 'He' and the Others --; XVII Germination of Certain Crops — and Illusions --; XVIII Surprises, Delusions and Observations of the Old Clerk --; XIX First Warning --; XX The Journal of the Old Clerk --; XXI The Journal of the Old Clerk --; XXII Grey Days and Baneful Hours --; XXIII An Apparition --; XXIV A Man Happy in Love --; XXV Rural Diversions --; XXVI Under the Sante Roof --; XXVII Woods, Ruins, Enchantments --; XXVIII The Journal of the Old Clerk --; XXIX The Journal of the Old Clerk --; XXX The Journal of the Old Clerk --; XXXI Ladies and Women --; XXXII How Eyes Begin to Open --; XXXIII A Couple Reconciled --; XXXIV Tempus Fugit, Aeternitas Manet --; XXXV The Journal of the Old Clerk --; XXXVI A Soul in Lethargy --; XXXVII The Journal of the Old Clerk --; XXXVIII ? --; Appendix: A censored passage --; Notes; restricted access
N2  - The city of Warsaw, under Russian rule in the late 1870s, is the setting for this story. The middle-aged hero, Wokulski, bold and successful in business, is being destroyed by his obsessive love for the frigid, aristocratic society ‘doll’ Izabela. The embattled aristocracy, the new men of finance, Dickensian tradesmen and the urban poor all come vividly to life on the vast, superbly detailed canvas
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633865378
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789633865378
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789633865378/original
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