The Peasants

<p><b>One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature</b><br><br>In the village of Lipce scandal romance and drama crackle in every hearth. Boryna a widower and the village's wealthiest farmer has taken the young and beautiful Jagusia as his bride - but she only has eyes for his impetuous son Antek. Over the course of four seasons - Autumn to Summer - the tangled skein of their story unravels watched eagerly by the other peasants: the gossip Jagustynka pious Roch hot-blooded Mateusz gentle Witek ... Richly lyrical and thrillingly realist at turns comic tragic and reflective Wladyslaw Reymont's magnum opus is a love song to a lasting dream of rural Poland and to the eternal timeless matters of the heart.</p>