Boleslaw Prus, actually Aleksander Glowacki was born in 1847 and died in 1912.He wrote many novels and short stories. The most popular are: „The Doll“ (filmed) and „Pharaoh“ (filmed). Prus was the leading representative of Polish positivism.Prus' novel The Doll, with its rich realistic detail and simple, functional language, was considered by Czesław Miłosz to be the great Polish novel. (and is waiting for me to read it)