Quo Vadis

A classic of Polish literature, an honorary academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences, Henryk Sienkiewicz was a brilliant historical novelist. Like Hugo, Dumas, Tolstoy, he was able to describe the great events of bygone eras, paying attention and personality of the person — the Creator of these events. In 1905 Sienkiewicz was awarded the Nobel prize for literature with the wording "For outstanding achievements in the field of epic". "Quo Vadis" is his most famous novel, which has been developing over the last four years of the reign of Nero (64-68 ad), during the formation of Christianity and the first of the acts of the apostles. Against the backdrop of historical events that forever changed the face of Western civilization, Sienkiewicz tells the tragic love story of a Roman aristocrat for the authorities persecuted the Christian.