Quo Vadis - Hardcover

Sienkiewicz, Henryk; Kuniczak, W.S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0025668552 ISBN 13: 9780025668553

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1993

Synopsis

Barcelona. 19 cm. XVI, 939 p. 1 retr. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial. Traducción cedida por Editorial Ramón Sopena. Obras selectas de premios Nobel. Quo vadis? ; Más allá del misterio. Traducción de: Quo vadis? ; Bez dogmatu. Sienkiewicz, Henryk. 1846-1916. Alcoba, Daniel. Corte superior dorado .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario.

About this title

Product Description:

During the tumultuous reign of Nero, Vinicius, a pagan, and Ligia, a Christian, fall in love

About the Author:

Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (1846 - 1916) was a Polish journalist, novelist and the 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 Sienkiewicz 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 at the turn of the 20th century 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." --Wikipedia

Jeremiah Curtin (6 September 1835 - 14 December 1906) was an American translator and folklorist. Harold B. Segel writes about Curtin's translations of works by Henryk Sienkiewicz: . . . Curtin was an indefatigable, diligent, and reasonably accurate translator, but he lacked any real feeling for language. Despite occasional lapses, the translations are acceptably faithful to the original, yet much of the time they are stilted and pedestrian. This results, at times, as [the American translator Nathan Haskell Dole had remarked [in 1895], from the location of the adverb in final position (even when this is not the Polish word order).[...] The "inelasticity" [that the Briton, Sir Edmund William Gosse spoke of [in 1897] is perhaps nowhere so clearly evident in Curtin's translations as in his insistence on rendering koniecznie as "absolutely" in all circumstances. --Wikipedia

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0025668552
• ISBN 13: 9780025668553
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 579