Pan Tadeusz

Pan Tadeusz (full title Pan Tadeusz, czyli ostatni zajazd na Litwie. Historia szlachecka z roku 1811 i 1812 we dwunastu ksi?gach wierszem - Pan Tadeusz or the Last Foray in Lithuania. A History of the Nobility in the Years 1811 and 1812 in Twelve Books of Verse) is an epic poem by the Polish writer

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Epic poem - Polish

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Adam Mickiewicz. It was first published in June 1834 in Paris, and is considered by many the last great epic poem of European literature. It is today compulsory reading at Polish school, and the most read book in the country after the Bible. Numerous quotations from this work are known by heart by near every Pole, above all its first verse:

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Adam Mickiewicz - 1834 - Paris - Europe - Literature

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:Litwo! Ojczyzno moja! ty jeste? jak zdrowie;

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:Ile ci? trzeba ceni?, ten tylko si? dowie,

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:Kto ci? stracil.

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:O Lithuania, my country, thou art like good health;

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:I never knew till now how precious, till I lost thee (trans. by Kenneth R. Mackenzie)

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Andrzej Wajda made a film version in 1999, which was a great audience success in Poland.

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Andrzej Wajda - 1999

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