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Marja Dąbrowska

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Marja Dąbrowska , 1889-1965, Polish sociologist and novelist. Dąbrowska worked as a militant publicist to further social and economic reform. Her works of fiction, including the epic novel Nights and Days (1932-34) and The Crossroads (1937), treat the problems of social change. Her short stories (1955) criticize the Communist regime.

Bibliography: See study by Z. Folejewski (1967).


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