Sienkiewicz
Hen·ryk [hen-rik], /ˈhɛn rɪk/, 1846–1916, Polish novelist: Nobel Prize 1905.
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As we bowled along in pursuit the scene reminded me of descriptions in the novels of Sienkiewicz or Erckmann-Chatrian.
War in the Garden of Eden | Kermit RooseveltSienkiewicz himself regards Children of the Soil as his favourite, although he is "not prepared to say just why."
Essays on Modern Novelists | William Lyon PhelpsIf some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested, what shall we do with Sienkiewicz?
Essays on Modern Novelists | William Lyon PhelpsBefore beginning to write, Sienkiewicz reads all the authorities and documentary evidence he can find.
Essays on Modern Novelists | William Lyon PhelpsIn power of description on a large scale, Sienkiewicz seems to take a place among the world's great masters of fiction.
Essays on Modern Novelists | William Lyon Phelps
British Dictionary definitions for Sienkiewicz
/ (Polish ʃɛŋˈkjɛvitʃ) /
Henryk (ˈxɛnrik). 1846–1916, Polish novelist. His best-known works are Quo Vadis? (1896), set in Nero's Rome, and the war trilogy With Fire and Sword (1884), The Deluge (1886), and Pan Michael (1888), set in 17th-century Poland: Nobel prize for literature 1905
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