On the Niemen

Name: On the Niemen
Author: Eliza Orzeszkowa

by Eliza Orzeszkowa

Novel of peasant life and family conflict along the Niemen river in Lithuania

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Eliza Orzeszkowa

Polish novelist who championed the rights of women and Jews in her fiction and was one of the most prominent figures of Polish positivism. On the Niemen is her masterpiece of peasant life on the eastern borderlands.

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