GRUSZECKI ARTUR, Mr. Counselor's War Divination. A contemporary novel.

Kraków 1915, G. Gebethner i Spółka, 12.5 x 17.5, period cloth hardcover, minor rubbing of cover edges, publisher's booklet cover preserved.

Excerpt from the novel:
A bell rang in the hallway of the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Szubski. The hour was early, ten o'clock in the morning, it was also the lady who was not yet dressed. She was wearing an old, faded petticoat, a blouse patched and stained; on her feet were trampled slippers with drooping stockings, and her hempen hair was gathered in a careless knot.
After the bell rang, she stood undecided for a moment, dreading an early visit with business to her husband, and no one in the apartment who could open the door. The children went for a walk in the park, the maid went to town after shopping.
The bell rang again, this time stronger and longer, and a male voice, a little impatient, spoke from the adjoining room:
- Walercie!... Someone is calling! Go, see, I'm shaving!
- Right away, Jasiu! - and Mrs. Valerya holding her blouse spreading over her breasts with one hand, with the other correcting her hair, approached the front door cautiously, as if she feared that it would suddenly open, and asked in a thin, shy voice:
- Who's there?
- A letter of recommendation ... To you; is he at home?
Mrs. Valerya took a breath, for the letter writer does not belong to the order of men in front of whom one can be ashamed and embarrassed; she boldly opened the door and held out her hand for the letter.