Among the many titles that Kazimierz Pułaski, a hero of two nations, Polish and American, had received was the title of the Marshal of Łomża, conferred upon him on August 3, 1769, by a council of the ...

Based on her personal archive of over 35,000 pages of documents - including letters, diaries, billets doux and suicide notes - as well as extensive interviews with friends and colleagues, this ...

A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.Speaking ...

On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman, a young Warsaw pianist, played Chopin's 'Nocturne in C Sharp Minor' live on the radio, while German shells exploded outside -- so loudly that he couldn't ...

This is the powerful memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived World War II in Warsaw against all odds. Written immediately after the war, but suppressed by the Communist authorities in Poland, ...

This is a translation of the first volume of the diary of the author of Ferdydurke (BRD 1961). It covers the years 1953 to 1956. The volume also includes two essays, 'Against Poets' and ...

This is the second volume of the author's diary. For the first volumesee BRD 1988.

'Bruno Schulz was one of the great writers....[His] verbal art strikes us -- stuns, even -- with its overload of beauty.' -- John UpdikeSixty years after his murder by the Nazis, Bruno Schulz, one of ...