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serabiThreads: 1
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Edited by: Moderator  Aug 5, 11, 15:09    #1
hello,
for a challenge, i'd like to write a short story with setting of poland around 1800-1900
the thing is i don't know anything about it^_^;
also wikipedia and textbook doesn't really help ... mostly they only say things about wars...
so, do you have any good source on description of life/culture in poland around that time? (how people dress, food, architecture etc?)
web article, book or movies?
please help, thanks^_^

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 Aug 5, 11, 15:13    #2
Well,good luck with that since there was no Poland in 1800-1900.
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 Aug 5, 11, 15:31    #3
for a challenge, i'd like to write a short story with setting of poland around 1800-1900


pick a one or two year period, check some old maps for that period, check distribution of people and religion, read wikipedia's history of Poland, read a book/novel set in that period, for fashion: check paintings/art from the period. weave the lot together.
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Edited by: pawian  Aug 5, 11, 16:04    #4
=serabi]for a challenge, i'd like to write a short story with setting of poland around 1800-1900
the thing is i don't know anything about it^_^;

In short - people lived in this:
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wore this
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worked here:
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and in their free time they were occupied with this
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Great idea to make a few bucks!
Tomorrow I am starting to write a story about, let`s say, 19 century China, though I know nothing about it. :):):):) Wiki and google will let a hand!
PS. I heard there were a few revolts in China in 19 century - Boxers` and other.
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 Aug 5, 11, 16:40    #5
I can't stop laughing......
plgrl  Aug 5, 11, 17:51    #6
so, do you have any good source on description of life/culture in poland around that time?


Yes, books from that period. Try The Labors of Sisyphus by Stefan Żeromski. You can also read The Peasants or The Promised Land by Władysław Reymont or Nad Niemnem by Eliza Orzeszkowa. You're lucky. The end of XIX cent. is a period of realism in literature so there are many novels from that period which describes the life and social problems of that time in very detailed way.
If you are intrested in the earlier period (1811-1812) you can read "Pan Tadeusz" by Adam Mickiewicz.
You need also study history a lot as well...
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Edited by: Des Essientes  Aug 5, 11, 19:30    #7
do you have any good source on description of life/culture in poland around that time? (how people dress, food, architecture etc?)

Read this. It has everything you've requested: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28240/28240-h/28240-h.html
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 Aug 5, 11, 19:45    #8
Life in Poland in 1800-1900


Watch Chłopi


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 Aug 5, 11, 20:50    #9
Life in Poland in 1800-1900


That was neat. I enjoyed watching it. Now at last I have an Idea of the life my Folks lived in that period in Poland.. They too were Peasants



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