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Adventures of Mr.Nicholas Wisdom

Adventures of Mr.Nicholas Wisdom

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Publisher Northwestern University Press
Year 01/08/1992
Pages 148
Version paperback
Readership level Professional and scholarly
Language English
ISBN 9780810110397
Categories Anthologies (non-poetry)
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Winner, 1997 National Book Award for Poetry

Winner, 1993 PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize

Published in 1776 and considered the first Polish novel ever written, The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom is a picaresque tale following the naive title character's coming of age. Having conquered (and fled) sophisticated Warsaw, Nicholas enjoys many adventures across Europe, South America, and the high seas. He finally lands among the natives of an unknown isle who reject his allegedly superior European ways and instead tutor him for an "enlightened" existence. Resonant with Enlightenment ideas, The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom provides a sly portrait of the era's Polish society and a fascinating perspective on the broader problems of eighteenth-century European culture. The book is a real find, not only in its dynamic synthesis of all the best literary models of the time-Fielding's Tom Jones, Rousseau's Emile, Voltaire's Candide, and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe-but also in the fleet Swiftian prose." -Chicago Tribune

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