Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 98 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Hubert Robert. A Roman officer wants a hostage girl from a barbarian court and cannot understand why she will not simply be taken. She is a Christian, in the reign of Nero, in the years when that becomes a capital matter. Sienkiewicz stages the fire, the arena and Petronius's exit with a clarity the cinema has been copying ever since. Paintings of imperial Rome, martyrdom and spectacle; Gilded Library ornament of laurel, cross, amphora and lion. Its 179 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.
Complete and unabridged, with 98 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Hubert Robert. A Roman officer wants a hostage girl from a barbarian court and cannot understand why she will not simply be taken. She is a Christian, in the reign of Nero, in the years when that becomes a...
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Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) wrote to keep the history of a partitioned Poland alive, and was translated so widely that the Nobel committee cited him in 1905. He built this novel out of Tacitus, and when the cinema came it took this book as its template for the Roman epic.
Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) wrote to keep the history of a partitioned Poland alive, and was translated so widely that the Nobel committee cited him in 1905. He built this novel out of Tacitus, and when the cinema came it took this book as its template for the Roman epic.
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