The fateful passions and chequered fortunes of a rich, landed family, the Castallacks, and their illegitimate parish brothers, are recreated with the clash of character characteristic of the author's other novels which include "Cashelmara" and "Sins...
The classic pacifist novel by a major Polish writer, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize
‘Only the villages are asleep, the eternal reservoir of all kinds of soldiery, the inexhaustible source of physical strength’
The villagers of...