A classic of Polish literature and an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Henryk Sienkiewicz was a brilliant historical novelist. Like Hugo, Dumas, and Tolstoy, he was able to portray the great events of past eras while paying attention to the individual—the creator of those events. In 1905, Sienkiewicz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his outstanding merits as an epic writer." Quo Vadis is his most famous novel, set during the final four years of Nero's reign (64–68 AD), a time of the emergence of Christianity and the early deeds of the apostles. Against the backdrop of historical events that forever changed the face of Western civilization, Sienkiewicz tells the tragic love story of a Roman aristocrat and a Christian woman persecuted by the authorities.
For the first time in Russia, the novel Quo Vadis is published with illustrations by the remarkable Czech artist Věnceslav Černý.
Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz
Translator: Evgeniya Lysenko
Pages: 608 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 140x210 mm
Series: Foreign Literature. Great Books
