num_pages: 192
description: Placwka was the first of four major novels by the Polish writer Bolesaw Prus. The author writing in a Poland that had been partitioned a century earlier by Russia Prussia and Austria sought to bring attention to the plight of rural Poland which had to contend with poverty ignorance neglect by the country's upper crust and colonization by German settlers backed by Otto von Bismarck's German government.
language: Polish
title: Placowka
publisher: GREG