In Poland he is best known for his "Trilogy" of historical novels With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, and Sir Michael - set in the 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth internationally he is best known for Quo Vadis, set in Nero's Rome. He soon became one of the most popular Polish writers of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and numerous translations gained him international renown, culminating in his receipt of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer." Many of his novels remain in print. In the 1880s he began serializing novels that further increased his popularity.
In the late 1870s he traveled to the United States, sending back travel essays that won him popularity with Polish readers. Born into an impoverished Polish noble family in Russian-ruled Congress Poland, in the late 1860s he began publishing journalistic and literary pieces. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis (1896). Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz, also known by the pseudonym "Litwos" - 15 November 1916) was a Polish journalist, novelist and the Nobel Prize laureate. Nonetheless, Sienkiewicz's vivid language made it one of the most popular books about that particular place and era. Thus it often favors epic plots and heroic scenes over historical accuracy. The book was written, according to the author, "to lift up the heart" of the Polish nation in the unhappy period following the failed January Uprising during the era of the partitions of Poland. Sienkiewicz researched memoirs and chronicles of the Polish nobility, or szlachta, for details on life in 17th-century Poland. Many characters are historical figures, including Jeremi and Bohdan Khmelnytsky (Polish: Bohdan Chmielnicki). *Plot* Despite some deviations, the book's historical framework is genuine and the fictional story is woven into real events.
It avoided censorship by using a historical setting concerning wars with past enemies other than the countries ruling parts of Poland at the time of writing(Russia, Germany and Austria).
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The series was a vehicle for expressing Polish patriotism in a Poland partitioned and deprived of independence. It became obligatory reading in Polish schools, and has been translated into English and most European languages. It gained enormous popularity in Poland, and by the turn of the 20th century had become one of the most popular Polish books ever. It was initially serialized in several Polish newspapers, chapters appearing in weekly installments. With Fire and Sword is a historical fiction novel, set in the 17th century in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Khmelnytsky Uprising. The novel has been adapted as a film several times, most recently in 1999. It is the first volume of a series known to Poles as The Trilogy, followed by The Deluge (Potop, 1886) and Fire in the Steppe (originally published under the Polish title Pan Wolodyjowski, which translates to Colonel Wolodyjowski).
With Fire and Sword (Polish: Ogniem i mieczem) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1884.
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