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With Fire and Sword: An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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With Fire and Sword: An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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Set against the wind-scoured Ukrainian steppes in 1647, this epic opens with omens in the sky and rebellion brewing in the Cossack ranks. When Lieutenant Yan Skshetuski rescues a wounded nobleman from an ambush, he finds himself entangled in a war that will reshape Eastern Europe: the great Cossack uprising led by the formidable Bohdan Khmelnytsky. As Poland-Lithuania plunges into chaos, Skshetuski must navigate a world where loyalty is tested, love is complicated by warring loyalties, and every choice carries the weight of national survival. Sienkiewicz, who won the Nobel Prize for his portraits of heroism, renders this conflict not as simple Good versus Evil but as a tragedy of colliding worlds, where the cultured Polish nobility, the fierce Cossacks, and the vast, indifferent steppe itself become characters in their own right. The novel crackles with swordfights, siege warfare, and the desperate courage of men and women caught in history's current. It is a story about what happens when the old order cracks, when old grievances rise like floodwaters, and when the only answer to "with fire and sword" is more fire, more sword.

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“Po to i ma szlachta krew, aby ją przelewała””

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Jędruś! Ran twoich niegodnam całować.””

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Dał ci Bóg nikczemną postać, jeśli się ludzie nie będą ciebie bali, to się będą z ciebie śmieli.””

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Jam nie z soli wyrósł ani z roli, jeno z tego, co mnie boli””

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Ja jestem Kowalski, a to jest pani Kowalska””

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Wtem uczynił się dziwny znak. Oto nagle naokół rozległ się szum skrzydeł i całe stada zimowych ptaszyn pojawiły się na podwórzu fortecznym, i coraz nowe nadlatywały z okolicznych ogłodzonych folwarków: więc szare śmieciuszki, trznadle o złotej piersi, ubogie wróble, zielone sikorki, krasne gile poobsiadały załamania dachów, węgły, odrzwia, gzymsy kościelne; inne kręciły się różnobarwnym wieńcem nad głową księdza, furkając skrzydełkami, świegocąc żałośnie, jakoby o jałmużnę prosiły, i nic nie obawiając się ludzi.””

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Tak to rysował się od fundamentów i chwiał się gmach zbudowany przez pychę Janusza Radziwiłła. Cała Rzeczpospolita miała się w tym gmachu zmieścić, a tymczasem okazało się wprędce, że jednej Żmudzi objąć nie może.””

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“A my z księciem wojewodą wileńskim powiedzieliśmy sobie, że z tego sukna musi się i nam tyle zostać w ręku, aby na płaszcz wystarczyło; dlatego nie tylko nie przeszkadzamy ciągnąc, ale i sami ciągniemy.””

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

“Niechętni (bo któż ich nie ma) mówili wprawdzie, że żony we wszystkim zbytnio słucha, ale on się tego nie wstydził, owszem, sam przyznawał, że w każdej ważniejszej sprawie zawsze rady jej zasięga.””

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

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