Cover: Orka (Ploughing) by Józef Chełmoński (1849-1914) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Henryk, the narrator, loves Hania, a girl he has known since childhood, in a manor in the Polish east where a Tatar neighbour, Selim Mirza, also comes into their lives. Sienkiewicz's novella of 1876, a tale of unfulfilled love, belongs with his 'little trilogy'.
