The Deluge Volume 2

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Deluge Volume 2 by Henryk Sienkiewicz. (Translated by Jeremiah Curtin.) Read in English by KHand; Simona Rusu; Elsie Selwyn; Nadja Fernandes; Gillian Hendrie; MajorHistory; David Granville Young; JeffE; Lynette Caulkins; William Allan Jones; Andrew Gaunce; Hanna Ponomarenko; Michele Eaton The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as "the Trilogy," having been preceded by With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem, 1884) and followed by Fire in the Steppe (Pan Wołodyjowski, 1886). The novel tells a story of a fictional Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth soldier and noble Andrzej Kmicic and shows a panorama of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Swedish invasion of Poland known in the Polish tradtion as „Potop” (hence the title). Kmita is a patriot who, nevertheless, unexpectedly and unwittingly finds himself on the wrong side of the conflict as a new war starts to ravage the already weakened Commonwealth. This decision costs him dearly as his beloved Olenka now sees him as a traitor. This is an epic panorama of a country that i…

Directors & creators

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;history; romance; war; poland

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