Product Details
Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Good
Listed - 2 months ago
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Ships From - California
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Artifact is in Good condition, especially for the age. Binding is still sturdy. Inscribed. Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero Popular Edition published by Little Brown and Company. Translated from Polish by Jeremiah Curtin, this is the only authorized English publication. Illustrated and features a photograph of the author Henryk Sienkiwicz is also the author of Withe Fire and Sword, The Deluge, Pan Michael, Children of the Soil, etc. The last pages of this copy feature advertisements for those books and others. This glorious saga unfolds against the backdrop of ancient Rome--from the Forum to the Coliseum, from banquet halls to summer retreats in Naples, from the luxurious houses of the nobility to the hovels of the poor, Quo Vadis richly depicts a place and time still captivating to the modern imagination. This radiant translation by W.S. Kuniczak restores the original glory and richness of master storyteller Henryk Sienkiewicz's epic tale.
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