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The novel tells a story of a fictional Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth soldier and noble Andrzej Kmicic and shows a panorama of the Commonwealth during its historical period of the Deluge, which was a part of the Northern Wars.Tags
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Far more celebrated than any of his positivist contemporaries, Henryk Sienkiewicz began as a journalist and achieved considerable renown with his account of a two-year journey to the United States. Between 1882 and 1888 he wrote three historical novels dealing with political and military events in seventeenth-century Poland: With Fire and Sword, show more The Deluge (1886), and Fire in the Steppe (1888, also translated as Pan Michael). Although superficial in its analysis of historical events, the trilogy gained enormous popularity both in Poland and in other Slavic countries thanks to Sienkiewicz's masterful use of epic techniques and of the seventeenth-century colloquial idiom. Even more popular, if artistically far weaker, was his Quo Vadis? (1896), a novel about Rome in the age of Nero (Sienkiewicz's fame in the West is chiefly based on this work). Another historical novel, The Teutonic Knights (1900), deals with the fifteenth-century struggle between Poland-Lithuania and the Teutonic Order. Henryk Sienkiewicz was awarded The Nobel prize in Literature for 1905 "because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer". (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Deluge (Vol. 2) (Vol. 2)
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- Potop (1974 | IMDb)
- First words*
- Był na Żmudzi ród możny Billewiczów, od Mendoga się wywodzący, wielce skoligacony i w całym Rosieńskiem nad wszystkie inne szanowany.
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- This is Volume 2 only of the complete Book 2 of Henryk Sienkiewicz's "Trilogy," entitled The Deluge (in the Polish original, Potop). Please do not combine it with any LT work for the complete work, or fo... (show all)r any other partial volume of this Book 2. Thank you.
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 891.8536 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures West and South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Slovene, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, and Macedonian) Polish Polish fiction 1795–1919
- LCC
- PG7158 .S4 .P627 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Slavic Polish
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