{"product_id":"the-peasants-isbn-9780241524244","title":"The Peasants","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of Poland's most significant twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cb\u003eWladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont\u003c\/b\u003e (1867–1925) was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for his four-volume epic \u003ci\u003eThe Peasants\u003c\/i\u003e (Chlopi), which was originally published between 1904 and1909.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Zaranko\u003c\/b\u003e (translator) is a Polish-English translator based in the UK. She has translated Kornel Filipowicz's \u003ci\u003eThe Memoir of an Anti-Hero\u003c\/i\u003e, for which she received the Found in Translation award in 2020.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305425883365,"sku":"NP9780241524244","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780241524244.jpg?v=1767740901","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-peasants-isbn-9780241524244","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}