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Sienkiewicz
[ shen-kye-vich; English shen-kyey-vich ]
noun
- Hen·ryk [hen, -, r, ik], 1846–1916, Polish novelist: Nobel Prize 1905.
Sienkiewicz
/ ʃɛŋˈkjɛvitʃ /
noun
- SienkiewiczHenryk18461916MPolishWRITING: novelist 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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As we bowled along in pursuit the scene reminded me of descriptions in the novels of Sienkiewicz or Erckmann-Chatrian.
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Sienkiewicz himself regards Children of the Soil as his favourite, although he is "not prepared to say just why."
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If some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested, what shall we do with Sienkiewicz?
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Before beginning to write, Sienkiewicz reads all the authorities and documentary evidence he can find.
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In power of description on a large scale, Sienkiewicz seems to take a place among the world's great masters of fiction.
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