One of this author's stories opens with four boys at an orphanage fighting over a copy of Robinson Crusoe.
One of this author's stories opens with four boys at an orphanage fighting over a copy of Robinson Crusoe. This author wrote a short story whose narrator tries to find the grave of a nameless lamplighter who had tried to dispel the darkness. Another of his stories compares the history of human civilization to the movements of splotches of mold. In another of his stories, Horus is stung in the leg and dies before he has a chance to receive the royal ring from his father so he can stamp his edicts. That story, "A Legend of Old Egypt," was the basis for his only historical novel. His other novels include The New Woman and The Outpost, as well as a novel about Stanislaw Wokulski's love for Izabela, which also contains the diary entries of Ignacy Rzecki. For 10 points, name this Polish positivist author of Pharaoh and The Doll.
One of this author's stories opens with four boys at an orphanage fighting over a copy of Robinson Crusoe.
Boleslaw Prus [or Aleksander Glowacki]