Quo Vadis: A Narrative Of The Time Of Nero - Brossura

Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1098813421 ISBN 13: 9781098813420

Casa editrice: Independently published, 2019

Riassunto

In “Quo Vadis” the author gives us pictures of opening scenes in the conflict of moral ideas with the Roman Empire,—a conflict from which Christianity issued as the leading force in history. The Slays are not so well known to Western Europe or to us as they are sure to be in the near future; hence the trilogy, with all its popularity and merit, is not appreciated yet as it will be. The conflict described in “Quo Vadis” is of supreme interest to a vast number of persons reading English; and this book will rouse, I think, more attention at first than anything written by Sienkiewicz hitherto."Petronius woke only about midday, and as usual greatly wearied. The evening before he had been at one of Nero’s feasts, which was prolonged till late at night. For some time his health had been failing. He said himself that he woke up benumbed, as it were, and without power of collecting his thoughts. But the morning bath and careful kneading of the body by trained slaves hastened gradually the course of his slothful blood, roused him, quickened him, restored his strength, so that he issued from the elęothesium, that is, the last division of the bath, as if he had risen from the dead, with eyes gleaming from wit and gladness, rejuvenated, filled with life, exquisite, so unapproachable that Otho himself could not compare with him, and was really that which he had been called,—arbiter elegantiarum." - Taken from "Quo Vadis: A Narrative Of The Time Of Nero" written by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Independently published
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1098813421
• ISBN 13: 9781098813420
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 344
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile