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On the Niemen

On the Niemen - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Michelle Granas (Translator), Eliza OrzeszkowaPublish date:2014-02-05Pages:658
Language:EnglishPublisher:Michelle GranasISBN-13:9780988859296ISBN-10:988859297UPC:9780988859296Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, LiterarySize:8.00 x 5.25 x 1.45 inchesWeight:1.6314Product ID:SCABV2MTHX
In the early 1900s, Eliza Orzeszkowa was repeatedly a top contender, with Leo Tolstoy, for the Nobel Prize in literature. Neither won. Nevertheless, her novels have remained classics of Polish literature, and her most famous, On the Niemen, is not only an unusual love story, but is strikingly relevant today. Unhappy after being abandoned by her fianc , Justyna, an impoverished young woman who lives in a manor house belonging to relatives, desires a life of greater usefulness. While being pursued by a wealthy aristocrat and by her former love - now married - she meets Jan, a man of lower social standing, who introduces her to a different world: one of closeness to nature, manual labor, and communal enjoyments. To leave the manor for a farmstead would be a very peculiar proceeding, however, and furthermore, the farming community is feuding with Justyna's uncle. Set in the 1880s among the Polish population in a part of what was once the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the story involves the consequences of the January Uprising, twenty years before, against Russian rule. The characters are drawn from a cross section of society and the novel's topics include love, social justice, egotism and materialism, the psychological effects of war, the emancipation of women, marriage as partnership, drug addiction, dignity, obligations to one's fellow humans, what it means to be civilized - and joy.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Michelle GranasISBN-13:9780988859296ISBN-10:988859297UPC:9780988859296Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, LiterarySize:8.00 x 5.25 x 1.45 inchesWeight:1.6314Product ID:SCABV2MTHX
Publisher: Michelle Granas

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