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This book focuses on a region of Silesia where the inhabitants speak three languages: Polish, German, and Silesian. The author analyzes the different ways that the inhabitants use the three languages and the situational, associational, political, and historical reasons they choose to speak whatever language they are speaking at any given moment.

A Polish Book of Monsters contains five stories of speculative fiction edited and translated from the Polish by Michael Kandel, award-winning translator of the fiction of Stanislaw Lem. From dystopian science fiction to fabled fantasy, these dark tales grip us through the authors' ability to create utterly convincing alien worlds that nonetheless reflect our own.

A volume of essays by Poles and Polish Americans remembering and commemorating the life of John Paul II.

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New Perspectives in Polish Culture: Personal Encounters, Public Affairs collects essays that examine the public-private dynamic as Polish culture-from the nineteenth century to the present day-interacts with the tensions, ambiguities, and idiosyncrasies of European modernity. The authors of these essays discuss Polish poetry, fiction, theatre, and literary and cultural theory. Writers and artists discussed in these essays range from Adam Micki...

Frulein Doktor dramatizes the exploits of Anna Marie Lesser, a beautiful and accomplished German spy during the First World War, who was based on an actual historical figure. The original production in Poland in 1933, called "a theatrical sensation, " broke all previous records for continuous theater performances.