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Pan Michael. An historical novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey; a sequel to "With fire and sword" and "The deluge".
Pan Michael An historical novel of Poland the Ukraine and Turkey a sequel to With fire and sword and The deluge Author:Henryk, Sienkiewicz Set in the mid-1600s, Pan Michael is the sequel to With Fire & Sword and The Deluge. Henryk (Adam Alexander Pius) Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) was a novelist, born in Wola Okrzejska, Poland. He studied at Warsaw, travelled in the USA, and in the 1870s began to write articles, short stories, and novels. His major work was a war trilogy about 17th-cen... more »tury Poland, beginning with Ogniem i mieczem (1884, With Fire and Sword), but his most widely known book is the story of Rome under Nero, Quo Vadis? (1896), several times filmed, notably in 1951 by Mervyn Le Roy (1900-87). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905.« less