Henryk Sienkiewicz Books In Order

Polish Trilogy Books In Order

  1. With Fire and Sword (1884)
  2. The Deluge (1886)
  3. Fire in the Steppe (1888)

Novels

  1. In Vain (1872)
  2. Pan Michael (1888)
  3. Without Dogma (1891)
  4. Quo Vadis? (1896)
  5. So Runs The World (1898)
  6. The Knights of the Cross (1900)
  7. The Field of Glory (1906)
  8. In Desert and Wilderness (1911)
  9. Whirlpools (1911)
  10. Through the Desert (1912)
  11. The Teutonic Knights (1993)
  12. Dust and Ashes or Demolished (2002)
  13. In Monte Carlo (2002)

Omnibus

  1. The Little Trilogy (1995)

Collections

  1. Western Septet (1973)
  2. Charcoal Sketches and Other Tales (1990)
  3. For Daily Bread and Other Stories (2001)
  4. Lillian Morris and Other Stories (2002)
  5. Life and Death and Other Legends and Stories (2003)
  6. Yanko the Musician and Other Stories (2003)

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With Fire and Sword

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. A few days later, the Lieutenant and his retinue were marching with quick pace towards Lubni. When they had forded the Dnieper, they marched along the broad highway across the steppes which connects Chigrin with Lubni, winding through Juki, Semimogil and Khorol. Similar roads led from the capital of the Prince’s territory to Kiev. In earlier times, before the battle which Hetman Jolkyevski fought against Solonitza, there were no roads at all; one had to travel from Lubni to Kiev across the steppes and over the desert; the way to Chigrin was by water, and on returning one passed through Khorol. Taking it all together, the country beyond the Dnieper, the former land of the Polovyets, was a desert, scarcely more populous than the Wild Lands, often infested by Tartars, and without protection from the bands of Zaporo jians. On the banks of the Sula, rose immense forests, teeming with life, seldom traversed by the foot of man. At certain places on the slopes of the Sula, and Ruda, Sleporod, Koro vaya, Orjavtsa, Pshol, and other greater and smaller rivers and streams, marshes had formed. These were partly overgrown with thick brush, and forests, and partly open land resembling a meadow. In these woods and moras*ses, animals, of all descriptions found a convenient hiding place. In the darkest depths of the forests roamed an immense number of aurochs,1 bears, and wild boars, and also an incalculable number of wolves, lynxes, martens, herds of deer, and red antelopes. In the swamps and pools, beavers built their dams; and the saying was current among Zaporojians, that among these beavers, there were some a century old, and snow white with age. On the high dry steppes, roamed herds of wild horses with shasrgy heads and blood shot eyes. The rivers teemed with fish, and…

The Deluge

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Now the terrible Arwid Wittemberg made himself heard. A famous officer brought his stern letter to the cloister, commanding the fathers to surrender the fortress to Miller. ‘ In the opposite event,’ wrote Wittemberg, ‘ if you do not abandon resistance, and do not yield to the said general, you may be sure that a punishment awaits you which will serve others as an example. The blame for your suffering lay to yourselves.’ The fathers after receiving this letter determined in old fashion to procrastinate, and present new difficulties daily. Again days passed during which the thunder of artillery interrupted negotiations, and the contrary. Miller declared that he wished to introduce his garrison only to insure the cloister against bands of freebooters. The fathers answered that since their garrison appeared sufficient against such a powerful leader as the general himself, all the more would it suffice against bands of freebooters. They implored Miller, therefore, by all that was sacred, by the respect which the people had for the place, by God and by Mary, to go to Vyelunie, or wherever it might please him. But the patience of the Swedes was exhausted. That humility of the besieged, who implored for mercy while they were firing more and more quickly from cannons, brought the chief and the army to desperation. At first Miller could not get it into his head why, when the whole country had surrendered, that one place was defending itself; what power was npholding them; in the name of what hopes did these monks refuse to yield, for what were they striving, for what were they hoping ? But flowing time brought more clearly the answer to that question. The resistance which had begun there was spreading like a conflagration. In spite of a rather dull brain, the gen…

Fire in the Steppe

Close on the heels of the magnificent With Fire and Sword and The Deluge, comes this impassioned tale of love, war, heroism, treason and betrayal, with which the great classic Trilogy of Poland’s most popular 19th century writer is brought to an end. Fire in the Steppe is the final book of Sienkiewicz’s literary masterpiece which grips and enthralls just as powerfully today as it did when it was first published in Polish in 1883 1889. It is an epic tale of love and adventure set in the savage wilderness of Poland’s eastern borderlands in the 17th century, and it is also the most realistic of Sienkiewicz’s novels. The Trilogy’s most memorable heroes, Pan Zagloba and Pan Volodyovski, are joined here by the unforgettable Basia, whose own adventures ring with strength, courage and determination against the bloody background of raids, border battles, and invasion by the awesome armies of the Turkish Empire in 1672. Told by a master storyteller who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905, Fire in the Steppe concludes the stories of the Trilogy’s fabulous hero*ines and heroes who live, love and die in these pages of Poland’s most enduring epic. As in the first two books, it is a masterful blend of history and imagination in which the East and the West of their era confront each other in an all out battle, and a handful of devoted men and women makes a heroic stand. Foremost among them is Pan Volodyovski, the Little Knight of The Deluge and With Fire and Sword, and the brave, loving Basia, who rides to war beside him and overcomes terrifying dangers of her own. The inimitable Pan Zagloba, one of literature’s most successfully drawn comic anti heroes, lives, drinks, orates, and flourishesbeside them along with a new cast of hard riding border knights, ruthless villains, and devoted soldiers. Chief among them is the indomitable Basia who brings love to Pan Volodyovski and destruction to a dangerous abductor; the tragic Eva and her brother Adam whose trust and caring b

In Vain

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.

Pan Michael

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Without Dogma

Readers of Henryk Sienkiewicz in America, who have known him only through Mr. Curtin’s fine, strong translations, will be surprised to meet with a production so unlike _Fire and Sword,_ and _The Deluge,_ that on first reading one can scarcely believe it to be from the pen of the great novelist. Even to those most unfamiliar with her history, it grows lifelike and real as it speaks to us from the pages of these historical romances. Only a very great genius can unearth the dusty chronicles of past centuries, and make its men and women live and breathe, and speak to us. These historical characters are not mere shadows, puppets, or nullities, but very real men and women, our own flesh and blood. His warriors fight, love, hate; they embrace each other; they laugh; they weep in each other’s arms; give each other sage counsels, with a truly Homeric simplicity. They are deep versed in stratagems of love and war, these Poles of the seventeenth century! They have their Nestor, their Agamemnon, their great Achilles sulking in his tent. Oddly enough, at times they grow very familiar to us, and in spite of their Polish titles and faces, and a certain tenderness of nature that is almost feminine, they seem to have good, stout, Saxon stuff in them. Especially where the illustrious knights recount their heroic deeds there is a Falstaffian strut in their performance, and there runs riot a Falstaffian imagination truly sublime…
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Quo Vadis?

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ‘Petronius, I fancy, did not take Lygia from us for Caesar; he would fear Poppaea’s vengeance. Consequently, he took her either for himself or for Viuitius. I shall investigate the case to day.’ Shortly afterwards he was being carried in a litter in the direction of the Palatine Palace, while Pomponia, left alone, went to comfort little Aulus, who was still crying for his sister and threatening Caesar. CHAPTER V. As Auhis had expected, he was denied admittance to Nero’s presence, He was told that Caesar was engaged in singing with Terpnos, the lute player, and that he generally received r only such persons as were summoned by him, which meant that Aulus must not hereafter even try to obtain an interview with Caesar. But Seneca, even though suffering from fever, received the old commander with due respect. When he had heard his tale a mournful smile came to his lips as he said: ‘One service, noble Plautius, I can render thec: I promise not to reveal to Caesar my pity for thec, nor my readiness to assist thee. If Caesar had the least suspicion of this, he would never return Lygia to thee, even were it only to thwart my wish.’ Seneca advised him not to apply to Tigellinus, nor to Vinitius, nor to Vitelius. They were not above bribes, they might be glad to do an injury to Petronius, whose influence they were trying to undermine. I iut more probably they would tell Caesar how much Lygia was prized by Plautius and his wife. Nero would become all the more unwilling to return her. Then the venerable sage, assuming a sarcastic tone, continued: ‘Thou hast held thy tongue, Plautius, held it so many years, and Caesar likes not those who arc silent. And how couldst thou withstand the fascinations of his good looks, his virtue, his pinging and recitations, his chariot d…

So Runs The World

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: part Ubfrb. WHOSE FAULT? A Dramatic Picture in One Act. Characters: Jadwiga Karlowiecka. Leon A Painter. A Servant. In the House of Jadwiga Karlowiecka. Scene I. Servant. The lady will be here in a minute. Leon alone. I cannot overcome my emotion nor can I tranquillize the throbbing of my heart. Three times have I touched the bell and three times have I wished to retreat. I am troubled. Why does she wish to see me! Takes out a letter. ‘ Be so kind as to cometo see me on a very important matter. In spite of all that has happened I hope you will not refuse to grant the request of a woman. Jadwiga Karlowiecka.’ Perhaps it would have been better and more honest to have left this letter without an answer. But I see that I have cheated myself in thinking that nothing will happen, and that it would be brutal of me not to come. The soul poor moth flies toward the light which may burn, but can neither warm nor light it. What has attracted me here ? Is it love ? Can I answer the question as to whether I still love this woman so unlike my pure sweetheart of former years this half lioness, whose reputation has been torn to shreds by human tongues ? No! It is rather some painful curiosity which has attracted me here. It is the unmeasurable grief which in two years I have been unable to appease, that desire for a full explanation: ‘Why?’ has been repeated over and overduring my sleepless nights. And then let her see this emaciated face let her look from nearby on that broken life. I could not resist. Such vengeance is my right. I shall be proud enough to set my teeth to stifle all groans. What is done cannot be undone, and I swear to myself that it shall never be done again. Scene II. Jadwiga entering. You must excuse me for keeping you waiting. Leon. It…

The Knights of the Cross

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. Polish literature developed long ago into the main vehicle of national expression. For many Poles, their literature stands with their religion as the twin pillars of their heritage. Sienkiewicz studied literature, history, and philology at Warsaw University but left in 1871 without taking a degree. He had begun to publish critical articles in 1869 that showed the influence of positivism, a system of philosophy popular in Poland and elsewhere at the time, emphasizing in particular the achievements of science. 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.

The Field of Glory

1906. Regarded as the most outstanding and prolific Polish writer of the second half of the nineteenth century, the 1905 Nobel Prize winner, Henryk Sienkiewicz is perhaps best known for his epic historical novel Quo Vadis, which depicts early Christianity and the persecutions. Sienkiewicz was known for his gigantic scenes, bright contrasts and the epic sweep of his works. He was a master in creating mass-action scenes and battles. On The Field of Glory, his last published book, begins with an adventure as a party rides through deep snow at night east of Radom, in the heart of Poland, and is suddenly confronted by wild boars and hungry wolves ready to devour people and horses. A dramatic rescue follows, and we are introduced to Sienkiewicz’s typical nobles. In the Kozienice Wilderness we meet Pan Pagowski, an insufferable snob; and the Bukojemski brothers, a bunch of rascals. Aniulka Sininska is a typical Polish young beauty, always helpless in Sienkiewicz’s writings, and Jacek Taczewski is her hero. Sienkiewicz was adept at combining truth with fiction, and thus we find fictional names interspersed with those of real ones. The novel ends rather abruptly as the Polish army moves towards Vienna. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

In Desert and Wilderness

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Whirlpools

Whirlpools, a social/political novel of modern Poland, began to appear in serialized form in 1909, and was published as a book in 1910. 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.

Dust and Ashes or Demolished

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In Monte Carlo

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The Little Trilogy

Translated by Miroslaw Lipinski. Available for the first time in one volume are three memorable Sienkiewicz stories: The Old Servant; Hania; and Selim Mirza. Follows the volatile friendship of two young men, as they share confidences, court the same girl, and ultimately fight side by side in the Franco Prussian War.

Charcoal Sketches and Other Tales

This sprightly new translation demonstrates that even the passage of a century cannot disguise the wit or lessen the bite of these three novellas by Sienkiewicz, the Polish writer best known for his historical novel Quo Vadis? Charcoal Sketches uses broad humor to depict the plight of the common folk in the village of Woollyhead who are subject to the rule of the Russian Tsar and, more directly, to the whims of his appointed representative, Mr. Skrofulowski…
Bartek the Conqueror is a darker tale of a peasant from a Prussian occupied area of Poland who is sent off to war only to discover that it’s easier to fight against the French than to live with the Germans. In On the Bright Shore Sienkiewicz ridicules Polish expatriates living the high life in Monte Carlo.” Publishers Weekly. ”These novellas continue Sienkiewicz’s close examination of Polish culture and history, providing a rich perspective for modern readers.” Library Journal.

For Daily Bread and Other Stories

For Daily Bread is the immigrant story as is A Comedy of Errors which is sub titled A Sketch of American Life. Also included is An Artist’s End.

Lillian Morris and Other Stories

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.

Life and Death and Other Legends and Stories

CONTENTS Life and Death: A Hindu Legend Is He the Dearest One? A Legend of the Sea The Cranes The Judgment of Peter and Paul on Olympus

Yanko the Musician and Other Stories

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

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