Quo Vadis

Henryk Sienkiewicz’s novel of Rome under Nero: the patrician soldier Marcus Vinicius falls in love with Lygia, a Christian hostage, and is drawn through the burning of Rome and the persecution of the Christians toward a new faith, while his uncle Petronius, the arbiter of elegance, plays his dangerous game at Nero’s court. It was first published in Polish in 1895–96. This edition follows Jeremiah Curtin’s public-domain English translation (1896).