Quo Vadis (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
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Publishing Details
Quo Vadis (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
By (Author) Henryk Sienkiewicz
Introduction by Andrzej Karcz
Translated by Jeremiah Curtin
Union Square & Co.
Barnes & Noble Inc
14th October 2004
Customer-Specific
United States
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Paperback
560
Width 140mm, Height 210mm
Description
"Quo Vadis" is a powerful historical novel about the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Through a romance between a high-born Roman pagan and a Christian woman, Henryk Sienkiewicz masterfully brings to life the decadence of imperial Rome during the reign of Nero Claudius Caesar (AD 54-68), the bloodthirsty persecutor of the early Christians. "Quo Vadis" has been translated into more than forty languages, as well as adapted into several movies. Jeremiah Curtin's accurate and lively English translation of the novel successfully conveys Sienkiewicz's muted portrayal of the beginnings of Christianity and his spectacular, apocalyptic vision of the Roman Empire in decline.
