Pan Tadeusz; or, The last foray in Lithuania / a story of life among Polish gentlefolk in the years 1811 and 1812Adam Mickiewicz
Pan Tadeusz; or, The last foray in Lithuania / a story of life among Polish gentlefolk in the years 1811 and 1812
Adam Mickiewicz
Poetry
Book language: English
359 pages
Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz is a narrative poem in twelve books, set among the Polish-Lithuanian gentry in 1811–1812. It portrays the customs, conflicts, loves and daily life of that world, with echoes of the Napoleonic era. It is worth hearing for its vivid verse, humour and nostalgic picture of a vanishing world.
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Opening of the book
PAN TADEUSZ OR THE LAST FORAY IN LITHUANIA All rights reserved
PAN TADEUSZ OR THE LAST FORAY IN LITHUANIA A STORY OF LIFE AMONG POLISH GENTLEFOLK IN THE YEARS 1811 ĵƿŠ 1812 IN TWELVE BOOKS BY ADAM MICKIEWICZ TRANSLATED FROM THE POLISH BY GEORGE RAPALL NOYES 1917 LONDON AND TORONTO J. M. DENT & SONS LTD. PARIS: J. M. DENT ET FILS NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
Contents PREFACE INTRODUCTION LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS IN “PAN TADEUSZ” WITH NOTES ON POLISH PRONUNCIATION BOOK I.—THE FARM BOOK II.—THE CASTLE BOOK III.—FLIRTATION BOOK IV—DIPLOMACY AND THE CHASE BOOK V.—THE BRAWL BOOK VI.—THE HAMLET BOOK VII.—THE CONSULTATION BOOK VIII.—THE FORAY BOOK IX.—THE BATTLE BOOK X—THE EMIGRATION. JACEK BOOK XI.—THE YEAR 1812 BOOK XII.—LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER! NOTES
[pg v] PREFACE Tƒŧ present translation of Pan Tadeusz is based on the editions of Biegeleisen (Lemberg, 1893) and Kallenbach (Brody, 1911). I have had constantly by me the German translation by Lipiner (ed. 2, Leipzig, 1898) and the French translation by Ostrowski (ed. 4, Paris, 1859), and am deeply indebted to them. The English translation by Miss Maude Ashurst Biggs (Master Thaddeus; or, The Last Foray in Lithuania: London, 1885) I did not have at hand until my own version was nearly complete; after that I consulted it only very rarely. I do not think that I am under obligation to it in more than a half-dozen scattered lines of my text. (Perhaps, however, my use of foray as a translation of zajazd is due to an unconscious recollection of the title of Miss Biggs's volumes, which I looked over several years ago, before I had even formed the plan of my own work.) In my notes, however, my debt to Miss Biggs and her collaborators in her commentary on Pan Tadeusz is important; I have striven to indicate it distinctly, and I thank Miss Biggs heartily for her kind permission to make use of her work. To my friend Miss Mary Helen Sznyter I am grateful for
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