News From The Author

Hello! I haven't added here any new posts for over two years now, but I see you still read my story, and that's absolutely insane! Thank you! I'm writing this post to give you some news that you maybe don't know about. Well, I have published two books since I stopped publishing here - Once Upon a Time There Were Two Poetry Books... & Laura's Diary - My Awesome Life . And I got a new blog now. It's called Get Inspired ,   and it's about my own cultural news. I also have a store with signed copies of my books, and there is a very nice merch that you can buy cheaper thanks to The Christmas Sale now. You can consider buying anything from me until midnight 27th December CET if you wanna save money and maybe buy presents. Oh, and I have a podcast where I talk about poetry and music. I mean it's an audiobook and commentary kind of thing where I talk about the meaning and inspiration that made me write certain works. It's called Romantic Wednesdays With...
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Recommended books

Polish books:

Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer - highland poetry and stories (Na skalnym Podhalu); you can learn more here

Stanisław Witkiewicz (father) - Na przełęczy [On the Mountain Pass: impressions and images from the Tatras]

Gabriela Pauszer-Klonowska - Pani na Puławach - the popular science book about the duchess Izabela Czartoryska

Stanisław Wasylewski - O miłości romantycznej - the book about romantic love written by the popular researcher 100 years ago

Henryk Sienkiewicz - Bez dogmatu [Without Dogma] - decadence, love, no rules and traveling

Henryk Sienkiewicz - Potop [The Deluge] - historical novel about the Swedish-Polish war (17th century) called The Deluge; full of humour and action

Henryk Sienkiewicz - Listy z podróży do Ameryki [Portrait of America: Letters of Henry Sienkiewicz]

Bolesław Prus - Lalka [The Doll] - Warsaw at the end of 19th (70s) century, book full of irony, decadence and forbidden love

Eliza Orzeszkowa - Nad Niemnem [On the Niemen] - Lithuanian lands, river and love between people who shouldn't be together

Maria Konopnicka - poetry which is patriotic, romantic and showing poor people love

Wacław Berent - Próchno [Rotten Wood] - four artists who can only talk and be sad about not being able to create

Wacław Berent - Ozimina - short novel about a salon (meeting), here you can learn what kind of people were coming for such meetings and what was happening there; only Polish version exists but maybe someone knows my language and wants to check it out?

Adam Mickiewicz - Pan Tadeusz [Mr. Tadeusz] - epic showing Polish people's lives when there was no Poland anymore (first decades of 19th century)

Adam Mickiewicz - Konrad Wallenrod - historical poem, medieval stuff; you can read it online here

Adam Mickiewicz - Dziady [Forefathers' Eve] - drama about ghosts and vampires; it's also quite patriotic; there are three parts - first one is numbered as II, the second part as IV and the last one as III

Maria Wirtemberska - Malwina, czyli domyślność serca  [Malvina, or the Heart’s Intuition] - sentimental novel written by Izabela Czartoryska's daughter; you can buy it here

Juliusz Słowacki - Anhelli - one of the best Polish romantic poems; mysticism, angels, traveling and stuff

Stanisław Wyspiański - Wyzwolenie [The Liberation] - one of my fav total artists; you can learn more about him here; about this piece of theatre here

Amelia Hertzówna - Yseult o białych dłoniach [Ysolde of the White Hands] - inspired by the legend of Tristan and Isolde; you can find her dramas here

Zbigniew Herbert - Barbarzyńca w ogrodzie [Barbarian in the Garden] - essays about art and architecture. My source about Paestum.


Other classic books:

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Lord Byron - Manfred

Walter Scott - Waverley

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther

Jean Jacques Rousseau - Julie or The New Heloise

Alfred de Musset - Confession of a Child of the Century

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Maurice Maeterlinck - Pelleas and Melisande

William Butler Yeats - Cathleen ni Houlihan and The Countess Cathleen (Irish folklore)


Modern literature:

Samantha Shannon - The Priory of the Orange Tree (fantasy; like Middle Ages)

Kerstin Gier - The Ruby Red Trilogy (time travels)

Zoe Sugg - Girl Online Trilogy (blogger's life)

Gyory Spiro - Messiahs (towianism)

Jacek Dehnel - Mother Makryna (nun cheater)

Olga Tokarczuk - E. E. (mystical, magical, deep... the psychic)

Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot (GF's bio, novel, surprising structure)

Maryla Szymiczkowa - Złoty róg (Golden Horn) (if you know Polish and Wyspiański's dramas...)

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