“A count and comic playwright, writer of fables and memoirs, poet. Born on the 20th of June 1793, at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains in Surochów near Przemyśl to a wealthy noble family.

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Fredro's writing coincided with two great eras in Polish literature: Romanticism and Positivism. Today, he is best known as a comic playwright, but one should not forget that he was also great at writing poems for kids.”