![]() ![]() Upon returnin to Warsaw, he attended the Polish (The Sacrifice), of which no manuscript is known to survive.įinding himself penniless, Sienkiewicz left the city withoutĭegree, and moved to the countryside, earning his living as a private Inspired by the novels of Sir Walter Scott and Alexandreĭumas, Sienkiewicz composed his first historical story, Ofiara While a student he started to write newspaperĬolumns under the pseudonym Litwos. Because of economicĭifficulties, the family sold their rural property and moved to Warsaw.Īt the age of 12, Sienkiewicz entered Warsaw Gymnasium. Okrzejska, a town in Russian-ruled Poland. ![]() Henryk Sienkiewicz was born to a well-to-do family in Wola Would flow out upon the world government of souls and bodies." Power was beginning to be His city, and the double capital, from which That city of pride, crime, wickedness, and ![]() He understood with equal force why the Lord had ![]() They could not overwhelm it with tears or blood, and that now its "And Peter understood that neitherĬaesar nor all his legions could overcome the living truth, - that Sienkiewicz's most famous novels include the widely translated and Henry(k) Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) - psydonym LitwosĪnd winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ![]()
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