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Henryk K. Sienkiewicz

Quo Vadis?

Editura: Hippocrene Books

Anul aparitiei: 1997

Rome during the reign of Nero was a glorious place for the emperor and his court; there were grand feasts, tournaments for poets, and exciting games and circuses filling the days and nights. The pageantry and pretentious displays of excess were sufficient to cloy the senses of participants as well as to offend the sensitive. Petronius, a generous and noble Roman, a man of the world much in favor at the court of Nero, is intrigued by a strange tale related by his nephew Marcus Vinitius of his encounter with a mysterious young woman called Ligia with whom Vinitius falls madly in love. Ligia, a captured King's daughter and a one-time hostage of Rome, is now a foster child of a noble Roman household. She is also a Christian. The setting of the narrative was prepared with utmost care. Henryk Sienkiewicz visited the Roman settings many times and was thoroughly educated in the historical background. As an attempt to create the spirit of antiquity, the novel met with unanimous acclaim, which earned the Nobel Prize in literature for the author in 1905. As a vision of ancient Rome and early Christianity it has not yet been surpassed, almost a century later.

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Quo Vadis: A Tale of the Time of Nero

Editura: DOVER PUBN INC

Anul aparitiei: 2011

A young Roman soldier falls in love only to discover that his sweetheart belongs to a strange new cult--a group that meets in secret to worship their one and only god. The romance of Marcus Vinicius and Lygia unfolds amid the decadence of ancient Rome, where bloodthirsty crowds flock to gladiatorial contests and a mad emperor sets fire to his own city. With its captivating blend of fictional and real characters, this historical novel contrasts the worldly opulence of the Roman aristocracy with the poverty, simplicity, and spiritual power of the early Christians. Quo Vadis (Where are you going?) was one of the world's first bestsellers and contributed toward the author's 1905 receipt of the Nobel Prize in literature. Originally written in Polish, its tale of the Roman suppression of Christianity echoes the Russian domination of Poland. This edition features Jeremiah Curtin's English translation of Henryk Sienkiewicz's enduring epic.

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The Knights of the Cross

Editura: WILDSIDE PR

Anul aparitiei: 2004

A historical novel by the eminent Polish Positivist writer and the 1905 Nobel laureate, Henryk Sienkiewicz. Its first English translation was published in the same year as the original. Before its first complete printed edition appeared in 1900. The book was first translated into English by Jeremiah Curtin, a contemporary of Sienkiewicz. The Teutonic Knights has since been translated into 25 languages. It was the first book to be printed in Poland at the end of the Second World War in 1945, due to its relevance in the context of Nazi German destruction of Poland followed by mass population transfers.Written in 1900 when the Polish state-after being partitioned between Russian, Austrian and German empires at the end of the 18th century-did not exist and the majority of Poles were living in the Russian occupation zone named Vistula Land, formerly Congress Poland.One of Sienkiewicz's goals in writing The Knights of the Cross was to encourage and strengthen Polish national confidence against the occupying powers. In order to circumvent the Russian censorship, he placed the plot in the Middle ages, around Prussia (region) and the State of the Teutonic Order. The story exhibits with ...

Henryk Sienkiewicz (Author)

Without Dogma ... Translated from the Polish by Iza Young.

Editura: BRITISH LIB HISTORICAL PRINT E

Anul aparitiei: 2011

Title: Without Dogma ... Translated from the Polish by Iza Young.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Sienkiewicz, Henryk; Sienkiewicz, Henryk; 1899. xi. 423 p.; 8 . ...

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With Fire and Sword: Volume 1

Editura: INTL LAW & TAXATION PUBL

Anul aparitiei: 2002

The period embraced in this set is "one of the most dramatic and fruitful of results in European Annals - remarkable for work and endeavor, especially in the Slav world," the author writes. Among Western Slavs, the great events were the Hussite Wars and the union of Lithuania and Polant. The Hussite Wars were caused by ideas of race and religion (born in Bohemia.) The period of Bohemian activity began in 1403 and ended in 1434, with the battle of Lipan. Known for their great narrative power and contain vivid characterizations, Sienkiewicz' work includes the great trilogy of historical novels began to appear in 1883. It is composed of With Fire and Sword (1884), The Deluge (1886), and Pan Michael (1887-88). Set in the later 17th century, the trilogy describes Poland's struggles against Cossacks, Tatars, Swedes, and Turks, stressing Polish heroism in a vivid style of epic clarity and simplicity. Henryk (Adam Alexander Pius) Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) was a novelist, born in Wola Okrzejska, Poland. He studied at Warsaw, traveled in the USA, and in the 1870s began to write articles, short stories, and novels. His major work was a war trilogy about 17th-c Poland, beginning with Ogniem i ...

Henryk K. Sienkiewicz (Author)

With Fire and Sword: Volume 2

Editura: INTL LAW & TAXATION PUBL

Anul aparitiei: 2002

The period embraced in this set is "one of the most dramatic and fruitful of results in European Annals - remarkable for work and endeavor, especially in the Slav world," the author writes. Among Western Slavs, the great events were the Hussite Wars and the union of Lithuania and Polant. The Hussite Wars were caused by ideas of race and religion (born in Bohemia.) The period of Bohemian activity began in 1403 and ended in 1434, with the battle of Lipan. Known for their great narrative power and contain vivid characterizations, Sienkiewicz' work includes the great trilogy of historical novels began to appear in 1883. It is composed of With Fire and Sword (1884), The Deluge (1886), and Pan Michael (1887-88). Set in the later 17th century, the trilogy describes Poland's struggles against Cossacks, Tatars, Swedes, and Turks, stressing Polish heroism in a vivid style of epic clarity and simplicity. Henryk (Adam Alexander Pius) Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) was a novelist, born in Wola Okrzejska, Poland. He studied at Warsaw, traveled in the USA, and in the 1870s began to write articles, short stories, and novels. His major work was a war trilogy about 17th-c Poland, beginning with Ogniem i ...

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Lillian Morris and Other Stories

Editura: INTL LAW & TAXATION PUBL

Anul aparitiei: 2002

Contains the stories "Lillian Morris," "Sachem," "Yamyl," and "The Bull-Fight." Known for their great narrative power and contain vivid characterizations, Sienkiewicz' work includes the great trilogy of historical novels With Fire and Sword (1884), The Deluge (1886), and Pan Michael (1887-88). Henryk (Adam Alexander Pius) Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) was a Polish novelist. He studied at Warsaw, traveled in the United States, and in the 1870s began to write articles, short stories, and novels. His most widely known book is the story of Rome under Nero, Quo Vadis? (1896), several times filmed, notably in 1951 by Mervyn Le Roy (1900-87). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905.

Henryk K. Sienkiewicz (Author)

Yanko the Musician and Other Stories

Editura: INTL LAW & TAXATION PUBL

Anul aparitiei: 2003

CONTENTS Yanko the Musician The Light-House Keeper of Aspinwall From the Diary of a Tutor in Poznan Comedy Errors: A Sketch of American Life Bartek the Victor

Henryk K. Sienkiewicz (Author)

In Vain

Editura: INTL LAW & TAXATION PUBL

Anul aparitiei: 2003

A love story of modern Poland, by the author of Quo Vadis. The scene is laid at Kieff, and university life there is described. In Vain the first literary work of Sienkiewicz, was written before he had passed the eighteenth year of his life and while he was studying at Warsaw. This volume contains pictures of student life drawn by a student who saw the life which he describes in this work. His student was a person of exceptional power and exceptional qualities, hence the value of that which he gives us. Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) was a novelist, born in Poland. He studied at Warsaw, traveled in the USA, and in the 1870s began to write articles, short stories, and novels. His major work was a war trilogy about 17th-century Poland, but his most widely known book is the story of Rome under Nero, Quo Vadis? (1896), several times filmed. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905. Jeremiah Curtin (1835 - 1906) translated this authorized, unabridged edition from the Polish. He was a renowned folklorist, linguist and translator.

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Quo Vadis

Editura: WAKING LION PR

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Marcus Vinicius is a passionate Roman tribune; Lygia Callina is a Christian maiden of royal descent and a hostage of Rome. At first Marcus has no notion of love, but he desires Lygia with animalistic intensity. Through political machinations, he contrives to have her taken by force into the decadent splendor of Ceasar's court, setting in motion a series of events that culminate in his own spiritual redemption. Set at the dawn of Christianity, and written with amazing historical accuracy, Quo Vadis won for its author the Nobel Prize. Translated into more than 40 languages, this captivating tale is one of the greatest novels in the history of religious literature. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Henryk Sienkiewicz (Author)

Ohne Dogma

Editura: TREDITION CLASSICS

Anul aparitiei: 2012

Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veröffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Gro teil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhältlich. Mit der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als gedruckte Bücher zu verlegen - und das weltweit! Die Buchreihe dient zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Förderung der Kultur. Sie trägt so dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit geraten.

Henryk Sienkiewicz (Author)

Quo Vadis?

Editura: TREDITION CLASSICS

Anul aparitiei: 2012

Dieses Werk ist Teil der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag tredition aus Hamburg veröffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu einem Gro teil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhältlich. Mit der Buchreihe TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als gedruckte Bücher zu verlegen - und das weltweit! Die Buchreihe dient zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Förderung der Kultur. Sie trägt so dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit geraten.

Henryk Sienkiewicz (Author)

So Runs the World

Editura: TREDITION CLASSICS

Anul aparitiei: 2011

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.

Henryk Sienkiewicz (Author)

Without Dogma

Editura: TREDITION CLASSICS

Anul aparitiei: 2011

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Convulsii

Editura: Editura Leda

Anul aparitiei: 2005

"Eu sunt un om de condei, care nu se pricepe la discutii si actiuni legate de politica practica [...] Nu stiu sa conduc dezbaterile, sa le readuc la matca atunci cand se abat pe directii laturalnice si imi lipseste cu desavarsire orice indemanare in aplanarea conflictelor. Necunoscand problemele de ansamblu, nu sunt in stare sa rezum punctele de vedere opuse si sa le prezint in mod sintetic. [...] Politica aplicata este pentru mine un domeniu strain, nepotrivit cu firea mea, si mi-as dori sa raman intotdeauna asa".Astfel isi intemeia Sienkiewicz la sfarsitul anului 1906, cu modestie si demnitate refuzul de a conduce un comitet infiintat pentru organizarea unei actiuni politice comune. Ca lucrurile nu trebuie considerate tale quale, o demonstreaza, printre altele, succesul de-a dreptul fulminant, repurtat in noiembrie 1905, de discursul improvizat intr-un balcon cu prilejul unei manifestatii populare. Ei, si tot el a scris proza social-politica si de dragoste, Convulsii, in realitate un roman-rafuiala, contrariind acuzator oficialitatile culturale care l-au intampinat cu ostilitate, mentionandu-l denigrator sub eticheta "esecului" peste o jumatate de secol. Aceasta opera, Convulsii, ...

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Potopul vol. I+II

Editura: LEDA

Anul aparitiei: 2005

Potopul scriitorului polonez Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) surprinde una dintre perioadele cele mai agitate din istoria Poloniei - razboiul cu suedezii -, cu radacini temeinic infipte in vremurile de slava ale Poloniei medievale. Romanul este o fereastra deschisa larg spre un trecut legendar, cu parfumul unei epoci totdeauna scumpe contemporanilor.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

QUO VADIS

Editura: Editura Leda

Anul aparitiei: 2007

Meritele artistice ale operei rezida, asadar, in rasfrangerea deosebit de plastica a lumii pagane. Realizandu-se pe mai multe planuri, curgerea intamplarilor se desfasoara dinamic, fara a intarzia in amanunte laturalnice; epicul se implineste armonios cu descriptia magistral proportionata a elementelor de cadru. Volumul enorm de fapte narate si varietatea lor dezvolta neprevazutul episoadelor. Desi relativ multe, personajele menite sa infatiseze stricaciunea cetatii sunt bine alcatuite; chiar daca uneori nu au decat un rost decorativ, sunt verosimile; in afara de cateva exceptii, Vinicius sau Chilon Chilonides, nu sunt fisurate de contradictii flagrante. Pe de alta parte, miscarea vie, plasticitatea scenelor si, mai ales, priceperea povestitorului sunt insusiri care tin treaza atentia. Cu toate slabiciunile existente - goluri in structura sociala, mentionarea prea grabita a conspiratiei lui Pison, precipitarea evenimentelor spre sfarsit etc. - atmosfera de ansamblu a metropolei romane se intipareste in memorie in toata complexitatea ei. Stan Velea

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Cavalerii teutoni

Editura: LEDA

Anul aparitiei: 2007

[...] Batalia de la Grünwald, spre care se indreapta toate firele naratiunii, este pregatita cu rabdare si constiinciozitate, relatiile dintre polonezi si lituanieni, pe de o parte, si cavalerii Ordinului teuton, pe de alta, evoluand inexorabil spre aceasta solutie de extrema. [...]Infrangerea cavalerilor crucii in lupta de la Grünwald in 1410, una dintre cele mai mari batalii ale Evului Mediu, intruneste, in sfera finalitatii imediate, lectia unui simbol plin de invataminte care prevesteste insuccesul oricarei politici de deznationalizare a poporului polonez, indiferent de argumentele si mijloacele intrebuintate. Stan Velea

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Pan Wolodyjowski

Editura: LEDA

Anul aparitiei: 2009

Universul polifonic al razboiului acopera in Trilogie o gama uriasa de tonuri cuprinse in registrele sonoritatilor simultane sau individualizate. "Melodia concreta" a inclestarilor intrepatrunde armonia discordanta a glasurilor oamenilor si strigatelor animalelor cu sunetele obiectelor si ale fenomenelor.Lech Ludorowski Harul creator al lui Sienkiewicz n-a fost o scanteie, o raza de lumina rasfranta intr-un ciob lucitor, ci o valvataie si un diamant de prima marime [...], fictiunile lui sunt ciudat de limpezi, de intense, viguroase si colorate, inchegate din amanunte perfect individualizate. Aici isi afla sursa policromia incomparabila a tablourilor, caldura si plasticitatea descrierilor, a imaginilor si a scenelor, intr-un cuvant, concretizarile artistice ale acestor fictiuni. Dupa parerea mea, din acest punct de vedere, putini scriitori ai lumii ii pot sta alaturi, dar poate ca nici unul dintre ei nu-l intrece.Eliza Orzeskowa [...] o carte care se apropie mult de ceea ce se intelege de obicei prin formula romanului de capa si spada. Cu deosebirea ca valentele realiste sunt mai pronuntate aici, iar episoadele se consuma intr-o realitate mai aspra, in care prefacerile Evului Mediu ...