Life and Death, and Other Legends and Stories
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz also known by the pseudonym Litwos, was a Polish writer, novelist, journalist and Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis (1896). Born into an impoverished Polish noble family in Russian-ruled Congress Poland, in the late 1860s he began publishing journalistic and literary pieces. In the late 1870s he traveled to the United States, sending back travel essays that won him popularity with Polish readers. In the 1880s he began serializing novels that further increased his popularity. He soon became one of the most popular Polish writers of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and numerous translations gained him international renown, culminating in his receipt of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer." Many of his novels remain in print. In Poland he is best known for his "Trilogy" of historical novels, With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, and Sir Michael, set in the 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; internationally he is best known for Quo Vadis, set in Nero's Rome. The Trilogy and Quo Vadis have been filmed, the latter several times, with Hollywood's 1951 version receiving the most international recognition.
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Life and Death, and Other Legends and Stories - Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Life and Death, and Other Legends and Stories
EAN 8596547316640
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
Table of Contents
PREFACE
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
PREFACE
Table of Contents
Is He the Dearest One?
was produced under the following circumstances: About fourteen years ago there was a famine, or at least hunger, in Silesia. Though that land is a German possession at present, it was once a part of the Polish Commonwealth, and there are many un-Germanized Poles in it yet.
The mother in this sketch is Poland. Yasko, the most unfortunate of her sons, is Silesia. Poor, ill-fated, he neglects his own language, forgets his mother; but she does not forget him, as was shown on the occasion of that hunger in Silesia. The Poles of Russian Poland collected one million marks and sent them to Yasko.
The ship Purple
represents Poland and its career, and is a very brief summary of the essence and meaning of Polish history. Like some of the author’s most beautiful short productions, it was written for a benevolent object, all the money obtained for it being devoted to that object.
All persons who have read Charcoal Sketches,
in Sienkiewicz’s Hania,
will be interested to learn the origin of that striking production. It was written mainly and finished in Los Angeles, Cal., as Sienkiewicz told me in Switzerland six years ago, but it was begun at Anaheim Landing, as is described in the sketch printed in this volume, The Cranes.
Besides being begun at Anaheim Landing, the whole plan of Charcoal Sketches
was worked out there. The Cranes
appeared in Lvov, or Lemburg, a few years ago, in a paper which was published for one day only,