History YMMV / InDesertAndWilderness

** It took all the way to 2024, over a century after the book entered curriculum, to reduce its presence to "only" fragments, while said fragments are still nearly half of the whole thing. And the reason cited was about ValuesDissonance (hence trimming it down to more neutral fragments), rather than the quality of the book itself.

** Indeed, the book made Saba quite popular dog name in Poland and almost all dog who bear the name are female.

** Actually, in polish forms of verb and adjective indicate the gender of a subject, so it's pretty clear that Saba is male in almost every sentence that mentions him. The confusion probably applies to the people who didn't actually read the book.

* CriticalDissonance: It is continously an obligatory book to read in Polish education, keeping that status for generations, meaning it is considered by a whole lot of people at high places to be good and worth reading. Ask readers what they think and it will easily get listed among the most boring books they had to read in their lives, with routine complains about flat characters.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Due to the way how grammatical gender and names[[note]]With a few exceptions, names ending in -a are girl names[[/note]] work in Polish, most people take Saba to be a bitch. It's mentioned ''once'' as a male mastiff.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Due to the way how grammatical gender works in Polish, most people take Saba to be a bitch. It's mentioned ''once'' as a male mastiff.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Due to the way how grammatical gender works in Polish, most people take Saba to be a bitch. It's mentioned ''once'' as a male mastiff.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Due to the way how grammatical gender works in Polish, most people take Saba to be a bitch. It's mentioned ''once'' as a male dogo.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Kali provides quite a few but probably the most iconic is morality.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Due to the way how grammatical gender works in Polish, most people take Saba to be a bitch. It's a male dogo.

* MemeticMutation: In Polish culture, a moral DoubleStandard is known as "Kali's morality". It comes from a scene in which Staś attempts to teach Kali about Christian morality (with some WhiteMansBurden and InsaneTrollLogic along the way): bad is when somebody steals from Kali, says Kali. And good, asks Staś? Good, Kali answers, is when Kali steals from somebody.

* MartyStu: Staś; [[{{Omniglot}} speaks Polish, English, French, Arabian, Swahili and a couple of other African languages]]. Swims like a fish, hits anything he shoots, the only people who don't like him are villains (he has one SourSupporter, who berates Staś for what he deems a HonourBeforeReason stunt). His only [[GoodFlawsBadFlaws flaw is a tendency to boast]], which he [[HumblePie loses]] early in the book. He is [[ImprobableAge fourteen]].

* {{Irony}}: Sienkiewicz is (in)famous for writing [[Literature/SienkiewiczTrilogy The Trilogy]] to "lift up hearts". He was living long after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland Poland was divided and ruled by foreign powers]] and removed from maps, as a citizen of Austria-Hungary. Yet in this book he has zero remorse toward [[OccupiersOutOfOurCountry partiotic uprising and opposing foreign invasion]][[note]]the very theme of ''The Deluge''[[/note]], treats rebels as scum of the Earth, while colonial powers and their imperialism is glorified to no end. Since both ''In Desert And Wilderness'' and ''The Trilogy'' are obligatory books in Polish curriculum, try to imagine the mental gymnastics required to handle this in school.

* {{Irony}}: Sienkiewicz is (in)famous for writing [[Literature/SienkiewiczTrilogy The Trilogy]] to "lift up hearts". He was living long after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland Poland was divided and ruled by foreign powers]] and removed from maps, as a citizen of Austria-Hungary. Yet in this book he has zero remorse toward partiotic uprising and opposing foreign invasion[[note]]the very theme of ''The Deluge''[[/note]], treats rebels as scum of the Earth, while colonial powers and their imperialism is glorified to no end. Since both ''In Desert And Wilderness'' and ''The Trilogy'' are obligatory books in Polish curriculum, try to imagine the mental gymnastics required to handle this in school.

* {{Irony}}: Sienkiewicz is (in)famous for writing [[Literature/SienkiewiczTrilogy The Trilogy]] to "lift up hearts". He was living long after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland Poland was divided and ruled by foreign powers]] and removed from maps, as a citizen of Austria-Hungary. Yet in this book he has zero remorse toward partiotic uprising and opposing foreign invasion, treats rebels as scum of the Earth, while colonial powers and their imperialism is glorified to no end. Since both ''In Desert And Wilderness'' and ''The Trilogy'' are obligatory books in Polish curriculum, try to imagine the mental gymnastics required to handle this in school.

* {{Irony}}: Sienkiewicz is (in)famous for writing [[Literature/SienkiewiczTrilogy The Trilogy]] to "lift up hearts". He was living in times when [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland Poland was divided and ruled by foreign powers]] and removed from maps. Yet in this book he has zero remorse toward partiotic uprising and opposing foreign invasion, treats rebels as scum of the Earth, while colonial powers and their imperialism is glorified to no end. Since both ''In Desert And Wilderness'' and ''The Trilogy'' are obligatory books in Polish curriculum, try to imagine the mental gymnastics required to handle this in school.

* {{Irony}}: Sienkiewicz is (in)famous for writing [[Literature/SienkiewiczTrilogy The Trilogy]] to "lift up hearts". He was living in times when [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland Poland was divided and ruled by foreign powers]] and removed from maps. Yet in this book he has zero remorse toward partiotic uprising and opposing foreign invasion, treats rebels as scum of the Earth, while colonial powers and their imperialism is glorified to no end. Since both ''In Desert And Wilderness'' and ''The Trilogy'' are obligatory books in Polish curriculum, try to imagine the mental gymnastics required to handle this.

* MartyStu: Staś; [[{{Omniglot}} speaks Polish, English, French, Arabian, Swahili and a couple of other African languages]]. Swims like a fish, hits anything he shoots, the only people who don't like him are villains (he has one SourSupporter, who berates Staś for what he deems a HonourBeforeReason stunt). His only [[GoodFlawsBadFlaws flaw is a tendency to boast]], which he [[HumblePie loses]] early in the book. He is [[ImprobableAge fourteen]].