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Polish Literature

Czerniawski, Adam, ed. Mature Laurel: Essays on Modern Polish Poetry. Dufour, 1991. Essays on modern Polish poetry for the reader who does not know Polish and must rely on translations.

Czerwinski, E. J., ed. Dictionary of Polish Literature. Greenwood, 1994. Entries for authors, literary periods, individual works, and other topics related to Polish literature.

Davie, Donald. Slavic Excursions: Essays on Russian and Polish Literature. University of Chicago Press, 1990. Scholarly essays written primarily in the 1960s and 1970s.

Krasicki, Ignacy, and Gerard T. Kapolka. Polish Fables: Bilingual. Hippocrene, 1997. A bilingual edition that introduces the famous fables of the 18th century poet, Ignacy Krasicki.

Kuniczak, W. S., ed. The Glass Mountain: Twenty-Eight Ancient Polish Folktales and Fables. Hippocrene, 1997. For younger readers.

Lem, Stanislaw, and Peter Swirski, ed. A Stanislaw Lem Reader. Northwestern University Press, 1997. Provides a good introduction to one of Poland's most revered writers.

Milosz, Czelaw. The History of Polish Literature. University of California Press, 1984. Survey of the country's literature and history; includes a bibliography.

Slavic Literature

Butler, Thomas, ed. Monumenta Bulgarica: A Bilingual Anthology of Bulgarian Texts from the 9th to the 19th Century. Michigan Slavic, 1996. Survey of Bulgarian and Church Slavic literatures.

Cooper, David L., ed. Traditional Slovak Folktales. Sharpe, 2001. An anthology of 50 folktales originally published in the 19th century.

Haviland, Virginia. Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Czechoslovakia. Little, Brown, Reprint, Beech Tree, 1966. 1995. For younger readers.

Mihailovich, Vasa D., and others, eds. South Slavic and Eastern European Writers. Gale, 2000. Volume 4 of a dictionary of literary biographies.

Nisula, Dasha Culic. Bibliography of Slavic Literature. Scarecrow, 2001. A reference covering the medieval period to the late 20th century.

Petro, Peter. A History of Slovak Literature. McGill-Queens, 1997. A rare history of one of the least-known Slavic literatures.

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