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Title: Pan Tadeusz

Author: Adam Mickiewicz

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Language: English

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PAN TADEUSZ

OR

THE LAST FORAY IN LITHUANIA

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PAN TADEUSZ

OR

THE LAST FORAY IN LITHUANIA

A STORY OF LIFE AMONG POLISH GENTLEFOLK

IN THE YEARS 1811 AND 1812

_IN TWELVE BOOKS_

BY

ADAM MICKIEWICZ

TRANSLATED FROM THE POLISH BY

GEORGE RAPALL NOYES

1917

LONDON AND TORONTO

J. M. DENT & SONS LTD.

PARIS: J. M. DENT ET FILS

NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.

CONTENTS

PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS IN "PAN TADEUSZ" WITH NOTES ON POLISH
PRONUNCIATION
BOOK I.--THE FARM
BOOK II.--THE CASTLE
BOOK III.--FLIRTATION
BOOK IV--DIPLOMACY AND THE CHASE
BOOK V.--THE BRAWL
BOOK VI.--THE HAMLET
BOOK VII.--THE CONSULTATION
BOOK VIII.--THE FORAY
BOOK IX.--THE BATTLE
BOOK X--THE EMIGRATION. JACEK
BOOK XI.--THE YEAR 1812
BOOK XII.--LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER!
NOTES

PREFACE

THE present translation of _Pan Tadeusz_ is based on the editions of
Biegeleisen (Lemberg, 1893) and Kallenbach (Brody, 1911). I have had
constantly by me the German translation by Lipiner (ed. 2, Leipzig, 1898)
and the French translation by Ostrowski (ed. 4, Paris, 1859), and am
deeply indebted to them. The English translation by Miss Maude Ashurst
Biggs (_Master Thaddeus; or, The Last Foray in Lithuania_: London, 1885) I
did not have at hand until my own version was nearly complete; after th