Chata za wsią
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Chata za wsią (variously translated to Engliish as The Cottage/A Hut Outside/Behind/Beyond/Near the Village) is a novel by the prolific Polish novelist Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, written in 1842. It was serialized in the monthly, Biblioteka Warszawska (The Warsaw Library), over a two-year period in 1853-54. In 1854-55 it appeared in a three-volume book edition published by the St. Petersburg house of B.M. Wolff.
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The book belongs to the folk-novel genre and depicts discrimination practiced against the Gypsy community. It is one of the most widely read novels by Kraszewski, and was adapted for theater, opera and film. It has been translated into Belarusian, Russian, French, Czech, German, Slovenian, and Ukrainian.[1]