Poland’s strong Catholic faith engendered in its literature a lively awareness of the Devil and a love of the supernatural and the fantastic. These stories are explorations of the extreme in human behaviour, where the bizarre chills the spine, and few authors can match Grabinski’s depiction of seething sexual frenzy. The Dark Domain will introduce to English readers one of Europe’s most important authors of literary fantasy.

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Product Description: This charming gift volume delves into Poland's rich literary tradition to bring you classic love stories from six renowned authors, including Sienkiewicz, Irzykowski, Rittner, Nalkowska, Dygat, and Poswiatowska. These stories explore love's many romantic, joyous as well as melancholic facets...read more

Product Description: The geographic isolation of Podhale, the Tatra Mountain region in Southern Poland, contributed to the preservation of the Polish language of those days when all Slavic languages, coming from the same source, differed less from each other...read more

When the Order of Teutonic Knights kidnaps Zbyszko's wife, his gallant search for her inspires all of the Polish knights, and their victories set the stage for a broader conflagration