Przedwiosnie was written by the leading Polish neoromantic writer Stefan Zeromski, and first published in 1925, the year he died. The novel consists of three parts: Szklane Domy (Glass houses), Nawloc (Nawloc estate), and Wiatr od wschodu (the Eastern wind). It is set between 1914-1924, before and during the reconstitution of Poland as the Second Polish Republic, but prior to the Polish-Soviet war.