Eliza Orzeszkowa

Zbiór opowiadań Elizy Orzeszkowej, zawierający osiem nowel: „Oni", „Oficer", „Hekuba", „Bóg wie kto", „Gloria victis", „Dziwna historia", „Śmierć domu" i „Panna Róża". Pierwsze wydanie z 1910 roku zawierało tylko pięć pierwszych tytułów. Wszystkie utwory odnoszą się do wydarzeń roku 1863 – powstania styczniowego. Orzeszkowa ukazuje w nich nie suche fakty historyczne, ale emocjonalną relację, bogatą w opisy

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Justyna Orzelska is a beautiful but poor noblewoman living in the manor house in Korczyn. When her rich cousin, Zygmunt Korczyński, rejects the girl's love, she gradually falls in love with Jan Bohatyrowicz. The new one, although from the lower social class, captivates the girl with stories of ancestors fighting in the January Uprising and awakens the spirit of patriotism in her. "On the Nemunas" is a realistic novel. On one hand, Orzeszkowa presents...

The story is very simple. We are in Poland in the early 1900. Aloysius Darvid is a millionaire with a wife and three children. At the beginning of the story his wife is ending an affair, his eldest daughter wants to marry someone he doesn't approve of, his son is living his life as a dandy not making something of himself, and his youngest daughter dotes on him. That the youngest is such a daddy's girl is sub-textually explained with her elder siblings...