Олеся
By Александр Иванович Куприн
Cover: Polesie Landscape, 1884 by Ivan Shishkin (1832-1898) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
A city writer staying in the forests of Polesie falls in love with Olesya, a girl from the woods whom the villagers call a witch. Kuprin's early story sets their brief happiness against the suspicion of the village. 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.