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  • Eliza Orzeszkowa, woodcut by J. Holewinski
    In Eliza Orzeszkowa

    …superstition of poor farmers, and Cham (1888; “The Boor”), the tragic story of a humble fisherman’s love for a neurotic and sophisticated city girl. Considered Orzeszkowa’s masterpiece, Nad Niemnen (1888; “On the Banks of the Niemen,” filmed 1987) depicts Polish society in Lithuania. Bene nati (1892; “Wellborn”) describes the impoverished…

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