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- Translated by
- Dr Ursula Phillips
2025
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*****EBRD LITERATURE PRIZE FINALIST**LOCUS FINALIST FOR BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL 2026**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS - BOOK OF THE YEAR, SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY*A Trans-Siberian odyssey through political, criminal, scientific, philosophical and amorous intrigues, and into an endless winter to confront something utterly alien.14th July 1924: In a Warsaw buried under feet of snow and Ru...
- Translated by
- Dr Ursula Phillips
2019
EN
Grzegorz Niziolek's The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust is a pioneering analysis of the impact and legacy of the Holocaust on Polish theatre and society from 1945 to the present. It reveals the role of theatre as a crucial medium of collective memory – and collective forgetting – of the trauma of the Holocaust carried out by the Nazis on Polish soil. The period gave rise to two of the most radical and influential theatrical ideas during work on productions that addressed the subje...
The Heathen
A Novel
- Translated by
- Ursula Phillips
2012
EN
Narcyza Zmichowska (1819–76) was the most accomplished female writer to come out of Poland in the mid-nineteenth century. In terms of influence and popularity, she was the George Eliot of East European letters, but her fiction was written less in the realist style than in the Romantic one. Her novel The Heathen, rendered here in a crystalline English translation by Ursula Phillips, is the tale of a doomed love affair between Benjamin, a young man from a poor but p...
The Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-1815
A Napoleonic Outpost in Central Europe
- Translated by
- Dr Ursula Phillips
2016
EN
The Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-1815 is the first academic history of the state established by Napoleon in pre-partitioned Poland at the turn of the 19th century. The book examines the political, social and cultural dynamics of the Duchy and considers its role in Napoleon's wider empire and the politics he engaged in across the European continent during the period. Czubaty explores the history of the Duchy to reveal how political and social ideas, systems and mechanisms from France, Ita...
- Translated by
- Ursula Phillips
2016
EN
Available for the first time in English, Zofia Nalkowska's Boundary was originally published as Granica in Poland in 1935. The modernist novel was widely discussed upon its publication and praised for its psychological realism and stylistic and compositional artistry. Over the years, it has been translated into several languages and made into a feature film, and remains a standard text in the Polish secondary school curriculum.Nalkowska was a pioneer of feminist fi...
- Narrated by
- Mark Elstob
- Translated by
- Ursula Phillips
Unabridged
56 hours 56 min
2025
EN
*****EBRD LITERATURE PRIZE FINALIST**LOCUS FINALIST FOR BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL 2026**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS — BOOK OF THE YEAR, SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY*A Trans-Siberian odyssey through political, criminal, scientific, philosophical and amorous intrigues, and into an endless winter to confront something utterly alien.14th July 1924: In a Warsaw buried under feet of snow and Ru...
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