Quo Vadis, subtitled A Narrative of the Time of Nero, is a novel by the Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz, serialized in 1895 and 1896 and published as a book in 1896. Written in Polish and grounded in extensive research into Roman history, it is set in Rome under the emperor Nero between roughly AD 64 and 68 and tells of the love between Marcus Vinicius, a young Roman patrician, and Lygia, a Christian woman held as a hostage, against the backdrop of Nero's persecution of Christians. The novel has been translated into more than fifty languages and adapted repeatedly for stage, film, television and opera, and it contributed to Sienkiewicz's award of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905.
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- Also in Language Atlas: Polish, original language there.
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1. Quo Vadis (novel) (Wikipedia)
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It was first published in instalments in the Gazeta Polska between 26 March 1895 and 29 February 1896, as well as in two other journals, Czas and Dziennik Poznański, starting two and three days later. It was published in book form in 1896 and has been translated into more than 50 languages.
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Written in Polish and grounded in extensive research into Roman history, it is set in Rome under the emperor Nero between roughly AD 64 and 68 and tells of the love between Marcus Vinicius, a young Roman patrician, and Lygia, a Christian woman held as a hostage, against the backdrop of Nero's persecution of Christians.
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