Reymont

[ rey-mawnt ]

noun

1. Wła·dy·sław Sta·ni·sław [vwah-, dee, -swahf stah-, nee, -swahf], Ladislas Regmont, 1868–1925, Polish novelist: Nobel Prize 1924.

Example Sentences

St. Reymont was born in 1868 in what was then Russian Poland.

From Time Magazine Archive

This first part of St. Reymont's epic of the soil is "a panorama of the whole round of peasant life, a brilliant picture of Polish nature ... the tragic sense of the elemental forces which dominate the efforts of the tillers of the soil."

From Time Magazine Archive

Author Reymont, one of the dozen children of poor parents, grew up under the hardships to which so many Slavic writers have been heirs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wladyslaw Reymont is the most widely known of living Polish writers.

From Project Gutenberg

Reymont himself was a peasant, rising from the bottom until to-day the light of his recognized genius shines in the very forefront of the Slavic intellectuals.

From Project Gutenberg