Pan Tadeusz

by Adam Mickiewicz · first published 1834

Pan Tadeusz (full title: Sir Thaddeus, or the Last Foray in Lithuania: A Nobility's Tale of the Years 1811–1812, in Twelve Books of Verse) is an epic poem by the Polish poet, writer, translator and philosopher Adam Mickiewicz. The book, written in Polish alexandrines, was first published by Aleksander Jełowicki on 28 June 1834 in Paris. It is deemed one of the last great epic poems in European literature. Pan Tadeusz, Poland's national epic, is compulsory reading in Polish schools and has been translated into 33 languages.

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Genre:

Epic, Epic poem

Original language:

Polish

Year page:

1834