Charcoal sketches, and other tales

A collection of three satirical and ironic novellas by the Nobel Prize-winning Polish author. It includes “Charcoal Sketches” (a satire of village life under Russian rule), “Bartek the Conqueror” (detailing the forced Germanization of Polish peasantry), and “On the Bright Shore” (an ironic look at expatriate Polish gentry on the French Riviera).