WHY Reymont rather than Hardy? Everyone is asking this question concerning the last winner of the Nobel Prize. And naturally: the pictures of peasant life given by the two have many points in common.

Winter in a peasant village, painted by the Limbourg brothers and published in the medieval illuminated manuscript ‘Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.’ Pierce Archive LLC/Buyenlarge via Getty Images ...

THE question as to the limit which, in the interests of our States, may be set to the free commingling of various races cannot safely be dealt with by men who are moved by philanthropy alone. The ...

Historian Joyce (The Rule of Freedom) draws on his family’s background in Ireland to provide an insightful and evocative homage to the peasant way of life, which has been the dominant human experience ...

In “Remembering Peasants,” the historian Patrick Joyce presents a stirring elegy for a vanishing culture. By Fintan O’Toole Fintan O’Toole is the author of “We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History ...

The village -- the village population -- the family and the household -- village living -- land tenure -- agriculture under the cooperative -- the village silk industry -- education, religion, and ...