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Contains seventeen Sienkiewicz stories: Sielanka, A Forest Picture For Bread Orso Whose Fault? The Decision of Zeus On a Single Card Yanko, the Musician Bartek, the Victor Across the Plains From the Diary of a Tutor in Poznan The Light-House Keeper of Aspinwall Yamyol, a Village Sketch The Bull-Fight, A Reminiscence of Spain Sachem A Comedy of Errors A Journey to Athens Zola ("Doctor Pascal")

Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) was a novelist, born in Poland. He studied at Warsaw, traveled in the USA, and in the 1870s began to write articles, short stories, and novels. His major work was a war trilogy about 17th-century Poland, but his most widely known book is the story of Rome under Nero, Quo Vadis? (1896), several times filmed. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905.

Jeremiah Curtin translated this authorized, unabridged edition from the Polish. Jeremiah Curtin (1835 - 1906), was a renowned folklorist, linguist and translator.

Contains seventeen Sienkiewicz stories:

Sielanka, A Forest Picture
For Bread
Orso
Whose Fault?
The Decision of Zeus
On a Single Card
Yanko, the Musician
Bartek, the Victor
Across the Plains
From the Diary of a Tutor in Poznan
The Light-House Keeper of Aspinwall
Yamyol, a Village Sketch
The Bull-Fight, A Reminiscence of Spain Sachem
A Comedy of Errors
A Journey to Athens
Zola ("Doctor Pascal")