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Henryk Sienkiewicz (HEN-rik Shen-KYEH-veech) ( May 5 1846 - November 15 1916) was a Polish novelist, one of the outstanding writers of the second half of the 19th century. Serializing his novels in newspapers, he became immensely popular and beloved in his time and, over a century later, is still highly valued by readers of prose. In Poland he is best known for his colorful historical novels depicting the derring-do of Polish heroes; abroad--for his novel, Quo Vadis, set in the reign of the Roman emperor Nero.

Quo Vadis has been filmed several times, most notably the 1951 version.

The author of Quo Vadis won the 1905 Nobel Prize in literature.

His most important works were:

Trylogia (The Trilogy), comprising the novels:
- Ogniem i mieczem (With Fire and Sword, 1884)
- Potop (The Deluge, 1886)
- Pan Wolodyjowski (Pan Michael, 1888)

The Teutonic Knights , ISBNFor information on using ISBNs in Wikipedia, see ISBN''. The International Standard Book Number or ISBN (sometimes pronounced "is-ben"), is a unique identifier for books, intended to be useful commercially. There is another quite similar system, the Inter: 0781804337 (Krzyzacy, 1900) - see Battle of GrunwaldFor the 1914 battle at the same location, refer to Battle of Tannenberg (1914 The Battle of Grunwald took place on July 15 1410 between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania on one side (estimated 39,000 troops), and the Teutonic Knights
Quo VadisQuo Vadis is a novel by a Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz, describing the introduction of Christianity into early A. Rome (while under Nero's rule). It was published in 1895. This novel chiefly contributed to Sienkiewicz's Nobel Prize for literature in 1 (1895)
In Desert and Wilderness (W pustyni i w puszczy, 1912)
The Polaniecki Family (Rodzina Polanieckich, 1894)
Without Dogma (Bez dogmatu, 1891)

1 See also

Quo vadisQuo vadis is a Latin phrase meaning Where do you go or Who goes there . It is used as proverbial phrase from the Bible . Several things have been named Quo vadis Quo Vadis (novel Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1896 Quo Vadis (1902 movie A silent version with no acto

2 External link

Full texts of works by Sienkiewicz from Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg PG was launched by Michael Hart in 1971 in order to provide a library, on what would later become the Internet, of free electronic versions (sometimes called e-texts) of physically existing books. The texts provided are mostly in the pub in English translation:

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