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Goodwill in the seventeenth century Polish Commonwealth has been stretched thin due to the nobility’s perceived and real oppression of the less well-off members. When the situation reaches its inevitable breaking point, it sparks the taking up of arms by the Cossacks against the Polish nobility and a spiral of violence that engulfs the entire state. This background provides the canvas for vividly painted narratives of heroism and heartbreak of both the knights and the hetmans swept up in the struggle.
Henryk Sienkiewicz had spent most of his adult life as a journalist and editor, but turned his attention back to historical fiction in an attempt to lift the spirits and imbue a sense of nationalism to the partitioned Poland of the nineteenth century. With Fire and Sword is the first of a trilogy of novels dealing with the events of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, and weaves fictional characters and events in among historical fact. While there is some contention about the fairness of the portrayal of Polish and Ukrainian belligerents, the novel certainly isn’t one-sided: all factions indulge in brutal violence in an attempt to sway the tide of war, and their grievances are clearly depicted.
The initial serialization and later publication of the novel proved hugely popular, and in Poland the Trilogy has remained so ever since. In 1999, the novel was the subject of Poland’s then most expensive film, following the previously filmed later books. This edition is based on the 1898 translation by Jeremiah Curtin, who also translated Sienkiewicz’s later (and perhaps more internationally recognized) Quo Vadis.
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Fiction, Poland in fiction, History, Cossacks in fiction, Cossacks, Cossack-Polish War, 1648-1657 in fiction, Cossack-Polish War, 1648-1657, Fiction, historical, Poland, fiction, Ukraine, fiction, Poland, Historical fiction, Cossacks -- Poland -- Fiction, Cossacks -- Ukraine -- Fiction, Poland -- History -- John II Casimir, 1648-1668 -- FictionShowing 12 featured editions. View all 62 editions?
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With fire and sword
1991, Copernicus Society of America, Hippocrene Books [distributor]
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With fire and sword: a tale of the past
1898, H. Altemus
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- 5th and rev. ed. by Dr. Samuel A. Binion ... with illustration by M. De Lipman.
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With fire and sword.: An historical novel of Poland and Russia.
1898, Little, Brown & Co.
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With fire and sword: an historical novel of Poland and Russia
1897, Little, Brown
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With fire and sword: an historical novel of Poland and Russia by Jeremiah Curtin
1897, Little, Brown
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