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    Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (US: /ʃɛnˈkjeɪvɪtʃ, -jɛv-/ shen-KYAY-vitch, -⁠KYEV-itch, Polish: [ˈxɛnrɨk ˈadam alɛkˈsandɛr ˈpjus ɕɛnˈkʲɛvit͡ʂ];...
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    collections of Irish folktales. He also translated into English Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis and other novels and stories by the Pole. Born in Detroit...
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    Onufry Zagłoba (category Sienkiewicz's Trilogy)
    Jan Onufry Zagłoba is a fictional character in the Trilogy by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Together with other characters of The Trilogy, Zagłoba engages in various...
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    entered Polish culture. For example, the novel With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz in several places describes how people were dancing w prysiudach,...
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    Quo Vadis (novel) (category Novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
    A Narrative of the Time of Nero is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Polish. The novel Quo Vadis tells of a love that develops between...
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    The Henryk Sienkiewicz Park in Włocławek is one of the oldest city parks in Poland. This is the third city park that was established in Włocławek. Previous...
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    Czachórski Portrait of Jadwiga Sienkiewicz Jacek Malczewski Henryk Józef Sienkiewicz Kazimierz Mordasewicz Henryk Józef Sienkiewicz Piotr Stachiewicz Skrzetuski...
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  • In Desert and Wilderness (category Novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
    adult novel by the Polish author and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz, written in 1911. It is the author's only novel written for children/teenagers...
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    With Fire and Sword (category Novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
    (Polish: Ogniem i mieczem) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1884. It is the first volume of a series known to Poles...
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  • The Trilogy (category Novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
    (1884–1888) is a series of three novels written by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz. The series follows dramatized versions of famous events in Polish...
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    Museum of Henryk Sienkiewicz is located in Wola Okrzejska at 21-480 Okrzeja; Phone: 025 755 9000; Tel. / fax: 025 797 6000. Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916)...
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    Russo-Polish War. The term "deluge" (potop in Polish) was popularized by Henryk Sienkiewicz in his novel The Deluge (1886). During the wars the Commonwealth lost...
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  • the University of Warsaw Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916), Polish author Nobel Prize for Literature laureate 1905 Henryk Cybulski (1910–1971), Polish forester...
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  • banner of Saint George and 40 men. His part in the battle was described by Henryk Sienkiewicz in his novel The Teutonic Knights. Zawisza Czarny v t e...
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  • The Deluge (film) (category Films based on works by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
    directed by Jerzy Hoffman, based on the 1886 novel of the same name by Henryk Sienkiewicz. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language...
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    Andrzej Kmicic (category Sienkiewicz's Trilogy)
    Andrzej Kmicic is best known as a fictional character created by Henryk Sienkiewicz featured in the novel The Deluge. He is a typical szlachcic (Polish-Lithuanian...
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  • Agnieszka Sienkiewicz (born 1984), Polish actress Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz (born 1961), Polish politician Bill Sienkiewicz (born 1958), American artist Henryk Sienkiewicz...
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    based on the historical novel of the same name by Nobel laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz. 1528: The Polish (szlachta) and Lithuanian nobility's legal right...
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    Pan Michael (category Novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
    and Sir Wołodyjowski) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1887. It is the third volume in a series known to Poles...
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    as A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens, Quo Vadis? by Henryk Sienkiewicz, and A Man for All Seasons (1960) by Robert Bolt, stories set in the...
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    novella) by Polish writer and winner of 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature, Henryk Sienkiewicz. It has been described as one of his most successful works in that...
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    The Knights of the Cross (category Novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
    written by the Polish Positivist writer and the 1905 Nobel laureate, Henryk Sienkiewicz. Its first English translation was published in the same year as the...
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    Władysław Reymont, Gabriela Zapolska, and Stanisław Wyspiański. In 1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz received a Nobel Prize in literature for his Quo Vadis inspiring a...
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  • In Desert and Wilderness (2001 film) (category Films based on works by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
    Gavin Hood. Adapted from the 1911 novel In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz, it tells the story of two children, Staś Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison...
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  • Neronian era (54–68 AD). He is one of the most important characters in Henryk Sienkiewicz' historical novel Quo Vadis (1895). Leo Genn portrays him in the 1951...
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  • The Deluge (novel) (category Novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
    Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a three-volume series...
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    reissued and is also available to read free online at Project Gutenberg. Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish writer and Nobel Prize winner, set his novel In Desert and...
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    Important positivist writers include Bolesław Prus (The Doll, Pharaoh), Henryk Sienkiewicz (author of numerous historical novels the most internationally acclaimed...
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    deprived of its sovereignty, and prophesied its revival. The novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz, who won the Nobel Prize in 1905, eulogised the historical tradition...
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    Sienkiewiczówka manor - home of Polish novelist and Nobel Prize laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz, located in the Poświętne district. There he wrote his first unpublished...
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