Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero (eBook)

Jeremiah Curtin, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Jan Styka (Autoren)

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2018
Lulu.com (Verlag)
978-0-244-09449-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, commonly known as Quo Vadis, is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Polish. "e;Quo vadis, Domine?"e; is Latin for "e;Where are you going, Lord?"e; and appears in Chapter 69 of the novel in a retelling of a story from the apocryphal Acts of Peter, in which Peter flees Rome but on his way meets Jesus and asks him why he is going to Rome. Jesus says, "e;If thou desertest my people, I am going to Rome to be crucified a second time"e;, which shames Peter into going back to Rome to accept martyrdom. This novel contributed to Sienkiewicz's Nobel Prize for literature in 1905. Jan Styka was a Polish painter noted for producing large historical, battle-piece, and Christian religious panoramas. He was also illustrator and poet. Known also as a great patriotic speaker - his speeches were printed in 1915 under the French title L'me de la Pologne (The Soul of Poland). From the 1896 edition, Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.6.2018
• Verlagsort: Morrisville
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 0-244-09449-7 / 0244094497
• ISBN-13: 978-0-244-09449-2 / 9780244094492