Noce i dnie

…of her classic four-part novel Noce i dnie (1932–34; “Nights and Days,” filmed 1975). Often compared to other acclaimed family sagas (such as Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks and John Galsworthy’s Forsyte Saga), Noce i dnie relates the story of Bogumił and Barbara (both of whom were born of landowning families whose…

…Maria Dąbrowska with her four-volume Noce i dnie (1932–34; “Nights and Days”), an outstanding modern Polish example of a chronicle novel in epic style, about the development of the Polish intelligentsia of upper-middle-class origin.