Slawomir Mrozek: The Elephant (Penguin Modern Classics) [2010] paperback Condition:New with its encyclopedic length and

with its encyclopedic length and organization and the intense jostle of its ideas

to crush the world's mightiest hero and establish its supremacy over all creation

the vast empty grasslands of South America where the wind blows without end

- Phil Clayton's unrivalled knowledge and personal approach are apparent throughout

Slawomir Mrozek: The Elephant (Penguin Modern Classics) [2010] paperback Condition:New with its encyclopedic length andThe Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek's award winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short stories, satirising life in Poland under a totalitarian regime. The family of a wealthy lawyer keep a 'tamed progressive' as a pet; a zoo saves money for the workers by fashioning their elephant from rubber; a swan is dismissed from the municipal park for public drunkenness; and under the Writers' Association, literary critics are banished to the salt