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The novel was written in a time when no Polish state existed, and Poles lived in areas controlled by the German Empire, Russian Empire and Austria-Hungary, in order to encourage Polish confidence against the Germans. The history of the actual German Order of the Teutonic Knights, which since the 13th century had controlled the area along the Baltic Sea coast, and its defeat in the 1410 Battle of Grunwald by Poles and Lithuanians was chosen as a background setting for the story which also describes medieval life and habits in the cities and the country. |
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The Divine Comedy, written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the Christian afterlife is a culmination of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church. |
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It is the first volume of a series known to Poles as the Trilogy, followed by The Deluge (Potop, 1886) and Fire in the Steppe (1886). The novel has been adapted as a film several times, most recently in 1999. With Fire and Sword is a historical fiction novel, set in the 17th century in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. |
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Quo Vadis tells of a love that develops between a young Christian woman, Ligia (or Lygia), and Marcus Vinicius, a Roman patrician. It takes place in the city of Rome under the rule of emperor Nero around AD 64. |
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Fire in the Steppe is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1888. It is the third volume in a series known to Poles as "the Trilogy," preceded by With Fire and Sword (1884) and The Deluge (Potop, 1886). The novel's protagonist is colonel Wolodyjowski. |
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Set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings, the story centers on the life of the protagonist Arthur Burton as a member of the Youth movement and his antagonist Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love Gemma simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism. |
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It's a fable in novella form about a seagull learning about life and flight, and a homily about self-perfection. |
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Ulysses chronicles the passage through Dublin by its main character, Leopold Bloom, during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title alludes to the hero of Homer's Odyssey (Latinised into Ulysses), and there are many parallels, both implicit and explicit, between the two works (e.g., the correspondences between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus). |
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