Quo Vadis

In the trilogy “With Fire and Sword;” “The Deluge;” and “Pan Michael;” Sienkiewicz has given pictures of a great and decisive epoch in modern history. The results of the struggle begun under Bogdan Hmelnitski have been felt for more than two centuries; and they are growing daily in importance. The Russia which rose out of that struggle has become a power not only of European but of world-wide significance; and; to all human seeming; she is yet in an early stage of her career." -Introduction