‘Quo Vadis will rouse more attention than anything I have written hitherto’, claimed Henryk Sienkiewicz in a letter to Jadwiga Janczewska in 1895. Nevertheless, even the author himself did not suspect ...
‘Portet Henryka Sienkiewicz’ (Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Portrait) by Kazimierz Mordasewicz, 1899, photo: National Museum in Warsaw The son of an impoverished landowner, Sienkiewicz attended a Warsaw ...
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In the back of a Polish parish, an elderly woman whispers a prayer: “Lord, please help Jan, that he may be safe in battle and route our enemies.” She lights a candle and leaves. It is 1885 and the Jan ...
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