by Stefan Zeromski
translated by Bill Johnston
Northwestern University Press, 1999
Paper: 978-0-8101-1596-5
Library of Congress Classification PG7158.Z4W5514 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 891.8536

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Originally published in 1912, this lyrical novel is set in a manor house in central Poland during the January Uprising of 1863 to 1864, when a volunteer Polish army futilely fought the Russian occupation. A wounded soldier appears outside the house and is cared for by Salomea, the young ward of the absent owners, who has been left in the manor with an aged servant. As the two strive to conceal the soldier's presence during brutal and invasive visits by the Russians, Salomea finds herself falling in love with her patient.

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