To arms!
Patrick Parrinder, 20 March 1997
The Doll
by Boleslaw Prus, translated by David Welsh.
Central European University, 683 pp., £9.99, September 1996,1 85866 065 3 Show More
by Boleslaw Prus, translated by David Welsh.
Central European University, 683 pp., £9.99, September 1996,
“... displaying characters whose lives are determined by the machinery of heredity and environment. Boleslaw Prus’s The Doll – first published in 1890, and perhaps the least known major 19th-century novel – stands midway between these tendencies. The novel’s protagonist, Stanislaw Wokulski, rises from obscure beginnings to become the owner of a ... ”