F. Hoesick FALL OF MY LIFE vol. 1-2

HOESICK Ferdynand: POWIEŚC MOJEGO ŻYCIA (HOUSE OF THE FAMILY), Ossolineum, Wrocław 1959, pp. 647[1]+528, 21x15cm

Ferdynand Hoesick [Hösick] (born October 16, 1867 in Warsaw, died April 13, 1941 there) - Polish bookseller and publisher, writer, literary historian, musicographer, editor-in-chief of "Kurier Warszawski". In 1900 he took over his father's bookselling and publishing company, founded in 1865 and operating until June 1940. He was a great lover of Zakopane and the Tatra Mountains, a tourist and mountaineer. He is the author of multi-volume studies forgotten today: The Life of Juliusz Słowacki Against the Backdrop of the Modern Era (1896-1897), Love in the Life of Zygmunt Krasiński (1899) and Chopin. Life and Works (1910-1911), in addition to books on the life and works of Julian Klaczka and Stanisław Tarnowski, and a four-volume work Tatry and Zakopane. Past and Present, published in 1920-1931. He published three found works by Chopin, including waltzes in E-flat major and A-major, as well as works by Adam Asnyk collected in three volumes in 1916. He published two collections of short stories Samotność and Misery of Marriage, as well as the novel Nemesis, which were not well received by critics. In 1935 his memoir Parental Home was published in four volumes, reissued in an abridged two-volume version in 1959 under the title Novel of My Life.