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Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812-1887) was a Polish writer and novelist.
Kraszewski (Krah-SHEFF-ski), a prolific writer, produced more than two hundred novels. He is best known for his epic series on the history of Poland, comprising twenty-three novels in seventy-nine parts. The first book in the series, Stara Baśń (An Ancient Tale, 1876) was recently made into a movie by Jerzy Hoffman.
As a novelist on Polish history, Kraszewski is generally regarded as second only to Henryk Sienkiewicz.
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