About the book: 1954 / The 1st volume of the Collected Works of Wanda Wasilewska included her first works - the story "The Image of the Day", which reflected the hopeless existence of workers in bourgeois Poland and the high the courage shown by workers in the struggle against exploitation, and the novel “Motherland,” which tells the story of the life of farm laborer Krzysiak, a life in which everything is suppressed by the fight against hunger and cold, and powerless labor for the landowner. Contents: E. Usievich. Wanda Vasilevskaya. (Critical-biographical essay). Look of the day. (Tale). Homeland. (Novel).