Their Pavel

Translation of nineteenth—century novel of life in a still—feudal Moravian village.

Marie von Ebner—Eschenbach (1830—1916) is Austria's most important nineteenth—century woman writer, but her works have remained largely unknown to English speakers, even her most important, the compelling Their Pavel, firstpublished serially in 1887. Based on a true incident, Their Pavel investigates the troubled social relations of a Moravian village that is endowed with the right of local governance but ste...