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Eliza Orzeszkowa (June 6, 1841 - May 18, 1910), was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism in Poland during foreign Partitions. She was born to a noble Pawlowski family in Milkowszczyzna, and died in Grodno (now Hrodna, Belarus) nearby. At the age of sixteen, Eliza married Piotr Orzeszko, a Polish nobleman twice her own age, who was exiled to Siberia after the January Uprising of 1863. They were legally separated in 1869. She married again in 1894, after a 30-year-long loving relationship with Stanislaw Nahorski who died a few years later. [Translated by Jaroslav Rozvoda] [Czechoslovakia (Czech and Slovak: Ceskoslovensko, Cesko-Slovensko) was a sovereign state in Central Europe that existed from October 1918, when it
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Published by V. Praze Nakladem J. Otty 1901 [First Edition 1898]. 1901.
Hard back binding in contemporary marble paper covered boards, paper ticket to the black cloth spine. 12mo. 6'' x 4¼''. Contains 187 [i] printed pages of Czech text. Tanning to the page edges, old Booksellers stamp to the title page and in Very Good sound condition. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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