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    August 1847 – 19 May 1912), better known by his pen name Bolesław Prus (Polish: [bɔˈlεswaf ˈprus] ), was a Polish novelist, a leading figure in the history...
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    Pieścikowski, Edward (1985). Bolesław Prus (2nd ed.). Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. ISBN 978-83-01-05593-6. Prus, Bolesław (1996). Tołczyk, Dariusz;...
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    (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus (1847–1912). Composed over a year's time in 1894–95, serialized in 1895–96...
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    Goethe, Alexander von Humboldt, Fryderyk Chopin, Dmitri Mendeleyev, Bolesław Prus, Ignacy Paderewski, Robert Baden-Powell, Jacob Bronowski (who filmed...
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    Kasparek, "Two Micro-Stories by Bolesław Prus," The Polish Review, 1995, no. 1, p. 99. Edward Pieścikowski, Bolesław Prus, p. 147. Christopher Kasparek...
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    title: Placówka) was the first of four major novels by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. The author, writing in a Poland that had been partitioned a century...
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    215. Krystyna Tokarzówna and Stanisław Fita, Bolesław Prus, pp. 440, 443, 445-53. Christopher Kasparek, "Prus' Pharaoh: Primer on Power", pp. 332-33. Walter...
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  • A Legend of Old Egypt (category Short stories by Bolesław Prus)
    micro-story by Bolesław Prus). "The Waistcoat" Krystyna Tokarzówna and Stanisław Fita, Bolesław Prus, 1847-1912, p. 376. Christopher Kasparek, "Prus' Pharaoh:...
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  • May 1791 Bolesław Prus, On Discoveries and Inventions (public lecture, 1873), by Aleksander Głowacki (Bolesław Prus's birth name) Bolesław Prus, "Fading...
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    recently deceased Bolesław Prus (who also had visited Zakopane), read everything by his fellow victim of Poland's 1863 Uprising—"my beloved Prus"—that he could...
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