![]() The work, an introspective narrative about serfdom in feudal Poland, won him the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature over Thomas Mann, George Bernard Shaw and Thomas Hardy. Reymont wrote his Nobel-winning 4-volume epic novel The Peasants between 19, it was published successively from 1904 to 1909. His third book, The Promised Land (1897), brought him wider renown and served as the basis for a well-received 1974 film of the same name by the late Polish director Andrzej Wajda. Reymont debuted as a novelist with the 1895 Komediantka (The Deceiver), followed a year later by Fermenty (Ferments). For a time he also considered joining the Pauline Order in southern Poland's religious sanctuary Czestochowa. Shortly afterwards Reymont took up work in a travelling theatre, subsequently working as a gateman at a railway crossing, a spirtual medium in Paris and London, and again with a theatre troupe. In 1885 he received the title of journeyman tailor, which remained his only formal education. After a few years he was sent to Warsaw to live with his elder sister and her husband and learn a trade. Reymont spent his childhood years in Tuszyn near the central-Polish metropoly Lodz, where his father was a church organist. ![]() ![]() Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (– December 5, 1925) was born in the village of Kobiele Wielkie, near Radomsko, as one of nine children. ![]()
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