Quo Vadis E-book
Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz
Genre: Literature, Religion / Mythology / Sacred
Sienkiewicz, Henryk (1846-1916)(pen name of Wola Okrzejska) Polish
novelist born of an impoverished noble family. Published his first
novel, In Vain, in 1872. Spent much of his life traveling. Came to
the U.S. in 1876. Wrote Portrait of America (1876-1878) and between
1883 and 1888 wrote a war trilogy, the first volume of which (With
Fire and Sword) was exceptionally popular. Also wrote Quo Vadis
(1896), Without Dogma (1899), and Teutonic Knights (1900).
Sienkiewicz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905.
Quo Vadis (1896)
Quo Vadis, a historical novel of ancient Rome about Petronius
Arbiter (the author of the Satyricon) is the only Sienkiewicz
novel known outside of Poland. A number of rather pedestrian
film versions have been produced, the first in 1912. Despite
everything, including his declining reputation outside of Poland,
Quo Vadis, and Sienkiewicz' other works, are worth reading.
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