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    Life and Death, and Other Legends and Stories
    Life and Death, and Other Legends and Stories
    Life and Death, and Other Legends and Stories
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    Life and Death, and Other Legends and Stories

    By Henryk Sienkiewicz and Jeremiah Curtin

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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    Henryk Sienkiewicz

    Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz also known by the pseudonym Litwos, was a Polish writer, novelist, journalist and Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especially for his internationally known best-seller Quo Vadis (1896). Born into an impoverished Polish noble family in Russian-ruled Congress Poland, in the late 1860s he began publishing journalistic and literary pieces. In the late 1870s he traveled to the United States, sending back travel essays that won him popularity with Polish readers. In the 1880s he began serializing novels that further increased his popularity. 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 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. The Trilogy and Quo Vadis have been filmed, the latter several times, with Hollywood's 1951 version receiving the most international recognition.

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      Life and Death, and Other Legends and Stories - Henryk Sienkiewicz

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      Title: Life and Death

      And Other Legends and Stories

      Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz

      Translator: Jeremiah Curtin

      Release Date: April 1, 2011 [EBook #35736]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIFE AND DEATH ***

      Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive.)

      Life and Death

      And Other Legends and Stories

      THE WORKS OF HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ

      Translated from the Original Polish by Jeremiah Curtin.

      The Zagloba Romances

      With Fire and Sword. 1 vol.

      The Deluge. 2 vols.

      Pan Michael. 1 vol.

      Quo Vadis. 1 vol.

      The Knights of the Cross. 2 vols.

      Children of the Soil. 1 vol.

      Hania, and Other Stories. 1 vol.

      Sielanka, and Other Stories. 1 vol.

      In Vain. 1 vol.

      Life and Death and Other Legends and Stories. 1 vol.

      Without Dogma. (Translated by Iza Young.) 1 vol.

      HOUSE PRESENTED TO HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ BY THE POLES

      Mr. Sienkiewicz and Mr. Curtin in the foreground

      Life and Death

      And Other Legends and Stories

      By

      Henryk Sienkiewicz

      Author of With Fire and Sword, The Deluge,

      Pan Michael, Quo Vadis, "Knights

      of the Cross," etc.

      Translated from the Original Polish by

      Jeremiah Curtin

      Boston

      Little, Brown, and Company

      1904

      Copyright, 1897, 1899, 1900, 1904,

      By Jeremiah Curtin.

      All rights reserved

      THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

      CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.

      PREFACE

      Is He the Dearest One? was produced under the following circumstances: About fourteen years ago there was a famine, or at least hunger, in Silesia. Though that land is a German possession at present, it was once a part of the Polish Commonwealth, and there are many un-Germanized Poles in it yet.

      The mother in this sketch is Poland. Yasko, the most unfortunate of her sons, is Silesia. Poor, ill-fated, he neglects his own language, forgets his mother; but she does not forget him, as was shown on the occasion of that hunger in Silesia. The Poles of Russian Poland collected one million marks and sent them to Yasko.

      The ship Purple represents Poland and its career, and is a very brief summary of the essence and meaning of Polish history. Like some of the author’s most beautiful short productions, it was written for a benevolent object, all the money obtained for it being devoted to that object.

      All persons who have read Charcoal Sketches, in Sienkiewicz’s Hania, will

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