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Sirota Banaćanka

Đura Jakšić

  • Stories
  • Book language: Serbian
  • 29 pages

Sirota Banaćanka is a short story by Đura Jakšić, a Serbian Romantic writer. It portrays the hard life of a poor woman from Banat and the injustice suffered by the poor, opening with a flood and blame directed at the poorest. It is worth listening to for its vivid picture of 19th-century rural Serbia and its compassion for ordinary people.

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Text source: sr.wikisource.org · The work is in the public domain.

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