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SIENKIEWICZ, HENRYK (1846– )
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See also:SIENKIEWICZ, HENRYK (1846– ) , See also:Polish novelist, was See also:born in 1846 at Wola Okrzeska near Lukow, in the See also:province of See also:Siedlce, See also:Russian See also:Poland. He studied See also:philosophy at See also:Warsaw University. His first See also:work, a humorous novel entitled A See also:Prophet in his own See also:Country, appeared in 1872. In 1876 Sienkiewicz visited See also:America, and under the See also:pseudonym of " Litwos, " contributed an See also:account of his travels to the Gazeta Polska, a Warsaw newspaper. Thenceforward his See also:talent as a writer of See also:historical novels won rapid recognition, and his best-known See also:romance, Quo Vadis? a study of See also:Roman society under See also:Nero, has been translated into more than See also:thirty See also:languages. Originally published in 1895, Quo Vadis? was first translated into See also:English in 1896, and dramatized versions of it have been produced in See also:England, the See also:United States, See also:France and See also:Germany. Remarkable See also:powers of realistic description, and a strong religious feeling which at times See also:borders upon See also:mysticism, characterize the best work of Sienkiewicz. Hardly inferior to Quo Vadis? in popularity, and See also:superior in See also:literary merit, is the trilogy of novels describing 17th-See also:century society in Poland during the See also:wars with the See also:Cossacks, See also:Turks and Swedes. This trilogy comprises Ogniem i mieczem (" With See also:Fire and See also:Sword, " See also:London, 1890, 1892 and 1895), Potop (" The See also:Deluge," See also:Boston, See also:Mass., 1891) and See also:Pan Woxodjowski (" Pan See also:Michael," London, 1893). Among other very successful novels and collections of tales which have been translated into English are Bez Dogmatu (" Without See also:Dogma, " London, 1893; See also:Toronto, 1899), Janko muzykant: nowele (" Yanko the Musician and other Stories," Boston, Mass., 1893), Krzyzacy (" The See also:Knight of the See also:Cross, " numerous See also:British and See also:American versions), Hania (" Hania, " London, 1897) and Ta Trzecia (" The Third Woman," New See also:York, 1898). Sienkiewicz lived much in See also:Cracow and Warsaw, and for a See also:time edited the Warsaw newspaper Slowo; he also travelled in England, France, See also:Italy, See also:Spain, See also:Greece, See also:Africa and the See also:East, and published a description of his journeys in Africa. In 1905 he received the See also:Nobel See also:prize for literature. A See also:German edition of his collected See also:works was published at See also:Graz (1906, &c.), and his See also:biography was written in Polish by P. Chmielowski (See also:Lemberg, 1901) and J. Nowinski (Warsaw, 1901). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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