Editorial Review Product Description Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Gabriela Zapolska, Jan Ludwik Popławski, Maurycy Orzech, Tadeusz Żenczykowski, Stanisław Kostka Potocki, Zygmunt Zaremba, Stefan Kisielewski, Henryk Chmielewski, Paweł Zaremba, Adam Naruszewicz, Witold Zalewski, Oskar Zawisza, Marian Zdziechowski, Stanisław Tarnowski, Zygmunt Zaleski, Jerzy Robert Nowak, Janusz Zabłocki, Aleksander Zawadzki, Jerzy Samp, Włodzimierz Zagórski, Zygmunt Załęski, Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Antoni Jan Ostrowski, Maria Julia Zaleska, Kazimierz Zdziechowski, Jan Dołęga-Zakrzewski, Andrzej Zakrzewski, Józef Życiński, Tadeusz Hołuj, Kazimierz Zakrzewski, Franciszek Ksawery Godebski, Ryszard Świętochowski, Władysław Żeleński, Norbert Barlicki, Tomasz Szarota, Roman Szymański. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska (18571921), known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress. Zapolska wrote some 41 plays, 23 novels, 177 short stories, 252 journalistic works, one film script and over 1,500 letters. She gained popularity with her socio-satirical naturalist comedies, which Moralno pani Dulskiej (The Morality of Mrs. Dulska), a 'petty-bourgeois tragic-farce', is considered her most-known work and regarded as a landmark of early modernist Polish drama. Her other dramas were translated into other languages, played at the Polish and European stages, and adapted into radio and film. Zapolska also acted in over 200 plays on stage in Warsaw, Kraków, Pozna, Lwów, Saint Petersburg and Paris. Zapolska was born on March 30, 1857 in Podhajce in Volhynia, (now Volyn Oblast, Ukraine) to a gentry family during the Third Partition of Poland. Her father was a marshal of Volhynian szlachta. She studied at the Sacré Coeur Institute and in ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=874104 ... Read more |