The Argonauts

Project Gutenberg's The Argonauts, by Eliza Orzeszko (AKA Orzeszkowa)This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.orgTitle: The ArgonautsAuthor: Eliza Orzeszko (AKA Orzeszkowa)Translator: Jeremiah CurtinRelease Date: February 6, 2007 [EBook #20537]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ARGONAUTS ***Produced by Andrew Leader of www.polishwriting.netIntroductionEliza Orzeszko, the authoress of "The Argonauts," is the greatest female writer and thinker in the Slav world at present.There are keen and good critics, just judges of thought and style, who pronounce her the first literary artist among thewomen of Europe.These critics are not Western Europeans, for Western Europe has no means yet of appreciating this gifted woman. Nodoubt it will have these means after a time in the form of adequate translations. Meanwhile I repeat that she is thegreatest authoress among all the Slav peoples. She is a person of rare intellectual distinction, an observer of exquisiteperception in studying men and women, and the difficulties with which they have to struggle.Who are the Slavs among whom Eliza Orzeszko stands thus distinguished?The Slavs form a very large majority of the people in Austria-Hungary, an immense majority in European Turkey, and ...