Henryk Sienkiewicz

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Henryk Sienkiewicz


Born
in Wola Okrzejska, Poland
May 05, 1846

Died
November 15, 1916

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Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (also known as "Litwos"; May 5, 1846–November 15, 1916) was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer."

Born into an impoverished gentry family in the Podlasie village of Wola Okrzejska, in Russian-ruled Poland, Sienkiewicz wrote historical novels set during the Rzeczpospolita (Polish Republic, or Commonwealth). His works were noted for their negative portrayal of the Teutonic Order in The Teutonic Knights (Krzyżacy), which was remarkable as a significant portion of his readership lived under German rule. M
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Quotes by Henryk Sienkiewicz  (?)
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“But I think happiness springs from another source, a far deeper one that doesn't depend on will because it comes from love.”
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis

“Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.”
Henryk Sienkiewicz, In Desert and Wilderness

“It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.”
Henryk Sienkjewicz

Polls

February 2024 Old School Classics Poll

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 1764, 125pp
 
  43 votes, 30.1%

Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire, 1869, 118 pp
 
  31 votes, 21.7%

 
  23 votes, 16.1%

Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, 1896, 589 pp
 
  20 votes, 14.0%

The Crime of Father Amaro by Eça de Queirós, 1875, 471pp
 
  18 votes, 12.6%

Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis, 1899, 288 pp
 
  8 votes, 5.6%

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