The Sins of Childhood & Other StoriesThis new work, containing twelve of Prus's classic shorter pieces, explores the full range of his talent - the depth of thought, human warmth, accuracy of observation, and technical excellence for which he has been justly praised. The stories range in tone from the whimsical ("Stas's Little Adventure") to the tragic ("The Waistcoat"), and are peopled with intriguing characters in settings from nineteenth-century Warsaw to Egypt at the time of the Pharaohs. Even the natural world doesn't escape Prus's eye for detail: the lives of humans are as influenced by the growth patterns of fungi as by the bite of a deadly spider. Prus's deep compassion for the human condition and his profound understanding of human joy and suffering run throughout this collection. |
Contents
Stass Little Adventure | 1 |
Michalko | 51 |
The Barrel Organ | 76 |
133 | 92 |
Him | 123 |
The Sins of Childhood | 143 |
The Fungi of This World | 204 |
From the Legends of Ancient Egypt | 221 |
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