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Eli Makower

By Eliza Orzeszkowa

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Cover: Road to the Village by Włodzimierz Tetmajer (1861–1923) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

A two-volume novel of Polish and Jewish life by Orzeszkowa, who made the question of how the two peoples could live together one of her great subjects. It opens on an ageing woman whose proud, brilliant youth has long gone, and goes back from her to the family of the title. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Tom I — I
  2. 2: Tom I — II
  3. 3: Tom I — III
  4. 4: Tom I — IV
  5. 5: Tom I — V
  6. 6: Tom I — VI
  7. 7: Tom I — VII
  8. 8: Tom I — VIII
  9. 9: Tom I — IX
  10. 10: Tom I — X
  11. 11: Tom I — XI
  12. 12: Tom II — I
  13. 13: Tom II — II
  14. 14: Tom II — III
  15. 15: Tom II — IV
  16. 16: Tom II — V
  17. 17: Tom II — VI
  18. 18: Tom II — VII
  19. 19: Tom II — VIII
  20. 20: Tom II — IX
  21. 21: Tom II — X
  22. 22: Tom II — XI
  23. 23: Tom II — XII
  24. 24: Tom II — XIII