Böcker av Waclaw Lednicki

I. The Prose of Pushkin.- II. The Snowstorm.- III. The Nest of Gentlefolk and the "Poetry of Marriage and the Hearth".- IV. Pushkin's "Monument".- V. Adam Mickiewicz: Poland's Romantic Ambassador to the Court of Realism.- VI. Mickiewicz at the Collège de France.- VII. Ex Oriente Lux (Mickiewicz and Pushkin).- VIII. Pushkin's Tazit and Mickiewicz's Konrad Wallenrod.- IX. Goethe and the Russian and Polish Romantics.- X. Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1946).- A Vanished Glory.- The Lighthouse.- The Positivist.- Letters from America.- The Trilogy.- Without Dogma and The Polaniecki Family.- Quo Vadis? and The Teutonic Knights.- Politics and Morality.- Sienkiewicz as I saw him then and now.

Frontmatter -- PREFATORY NOTE -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Note to Introduction -- I. Introduction -- II. Europe on the Eve of the Last War -- III. The Week of Alarm in Poland -- IV. Cracow Under German Bombs -- V. The Agony of the Human Soul -- VI. The Great Surprise: "Russian Saviours" -- VII. Arrest by the G.P.U. -- VIII. Wilno and Lwow Under Soviet "Protection" -- IX. Return to the Invaded Domicile -- X. "We Will Read, and You Shall Work!" -- XI. The Spectrum of German Occupation -- XII. A Touching Talk with the Foe -- XIII. Diplomacy and Fate -- XIV. My Brussels Alma Mater -- XV. The Poles in France -- XVI. Belgian Illusions -- XVII. Paris Before the Fall of France -- XVIII. "Las Dichas y las Desdichas" -- XIX. Lisbon and the "Ugly Americans" -- XX. My Mayflower -- XXI. New Life -- XXII. Postscript: My Sister