With Fire and Sword: An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia by Henryk Sienkiewicz
"With Fire and Sword: An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia" by Henryk Sienkiewicz is a historical novel published in 1884. Set during the 17th-century Khmelnytsky Uprising in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, it follows Lieutenant Jan Skrzetuski as he becomes entangled in a brewing revolution. When he falls in love with Helena Kurcewicz, he must navigate warfare between Polish forces, Cossack rebels, and Tartar cavalry while searching for his beloved across a devastated
landscape. Written to inspire Polish patriotism during the partitions, this epic tale blends historical figures with fictional heroism. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Read or download for free
For an overview of the different reading options, see our Reading Guide
| Reading Options | Url | Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read now! | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37027.html.images | 1.8 MB | |||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37027.epub3.images | 1.9 MB | |||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37027.epub.images | 1.9 MB | |||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37027.epub.noimages | 831 kB | |||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37027.kf8.images | 2.0 MB | |||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37027.kindle.images | 1.9 MB | |||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37027.txt.utf-8 | 1.7 MB | |||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/37027/pg37027-h.zip | 1.8 MB | |||
| There may be more files related to this item. | |||||
Similar Books
About this eBook
| Author | Sienkiewicz, Henryk, 1846-1916 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906 |
| Uniform Title | Ogniem i mieczem. English |
| Title | With Fire and Sword: An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Fire_and_Sword |
| Credits | Charles Bowen |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature |
| Subject | Historical fiction |
| Subject | Cossacks -- Poland -- Fiction |
| Subject | Cossacks -- Ukraine -- Fiction |
| Subject | Poland -- History -- John II Casimir, 1648-1668 -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 37027 |
| Release Date | Aug 10, 2011 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 13, 2023 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1252 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |