Henryk Sienkiewicz Rodzina Połanieckich 1-3t. Warsaw 1895 first edition Printed by Gebethner & Wolff 322, 378, 499s. t. 1-2 o. cloth prewar, gilt,- sticker of the Bookbindery of A. Lewandowicz in Kalisz, vol. 3 o. contemporary The last volume lacks a pre-title page, numerous stains, cracks in the cloth along the spine line For. ca: 17.5x12 cm The basic space of the novel is Warsaw (a city, a place of doing business), and its main character is a merchant and entrepreneur (an engineer by education and a nobleman by origin), Stanislaw Połaniecki, who marries an impoverished noblewoman Marynia, née Pławicka. From a ruthless man of business and an unfaithful husband who subordinates moral values to his goals and whims, he changes into a landowner who adheres to traditional values. |