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Discover a new way to read classics with Quick Read. This Quick Read edition includes both the full text and a summary for each chapter. - Reading time of the complete text: about 19 hours - Reading time of the summarized text: about 1 hour "Quo Vadis: A Narrative of...
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, commonly known asQuo Vadis, is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz.Quo vadis is Latin for "Where are you going?" and alludes to a New Testament verse (John 13:36). The verse, in the King James Version, reads as...
PETRONIUS woke only about midday, and as usual greatly wearied. The evening before he had been at one of Nero's feasts, which was prolonged till late at night. For some time his health had been failing. He said himself that he woke up benumbed, as it were, and without...
The romance of Sienkiewicz in this volume is perhaps the most interesting and fascinating he has yet produced. It is in the very first rank of imaginative and historical romance.The time and scene of the noble story are laid in the middle ages during the conquest of...
The history of the origin and career of the two Slav States, Poland and Russia, is interesting not merely because it contains a vast number of surprising scenes and marvellous pictures of life, not merely because it gives us a kaleidoscope as it were of the acts of men,...
I once read a short story, in which a Slav author had all the lilies and bells in a forest bending toward each other, whispering and resounding softly the words: Glory! Glory! Glory! until the whole forest and then the whole world repeated the song of flowers.
IN the trilogy With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, and Pan Michael, Sienkiewicz has given pictures of a great and decisive epoch in modern history. The results of the struggle begun under Bogdan Hmelnitski have been felt for more than two centuries, and they are growing...
In Tyniec,[1] in the inn under Dreadful Urus, which belonged to the abbey, a few people were sitting, listening to the talk of a military man who had come from afar, and was telling them of the adventures which he had experienced during the war and his journey.
Rome, Ier siècle de notre ère. Néron règne en maître absolu sur l’Empire. Alors que complots, débauches, banquets, orgies et jeux de pouvoir sont l’ordinaire de la haute société, le nouveau culte chrétien arrivé de Palestine essaime dans les bas-fonds. Au centre de ...
Deux péplums majestueux écrits par deux auteurs de talents – Lewis Wallace & Henryk Sienkiewicz – réunis pour la première fois dans une édition électronique complète.Tout d’abord, « Ben-Hur »Fils d'un prince de Jérusalem, Juda Ben-Hur s'apprête à partir à Rome pour y...
Quo Vadis ?Henryk SienkiewiczTexte intégral. Cet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire.Quo vadis ? est un roman historique de l'écrivain publié en feuilleton dans la...
Rome, 64 ap. J.-C. Vinicius est amoureux ! La belle Lygie a conquis son cœur. Mais celle-ci est chrétienne ! Comme tous les adeptes de sa religion, elle doit vivre dans les catacombes… et subir les persécutions de l'empereur Néron. Lygie doit mourir ! Pour la sauver, le...
Publicado em 1895, «Quo Vadis» é um romance histórico ambientado na Roma Imperial de Nero e que tem por tema a perseguição que se abateu sobre os cristãos após o Grande Incêndio de Roma.
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