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Quo VadisHenryk Sienkiewicz

On the coverStudy for Nero's Torches, Henryk Siemiradzki, c. 1876

Quo Vadis

1896 · Poland · Novel · ~600 pages

In the Rome of the mad emperor Nero, a proud young patrician falls in love with a Christian girl, and their fates are swept into the terror and fire that engulf the early Church. The great historical epic of faith under Roman persecution.

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Why read it

A sweeping, cinematic epic of love and faith against the spectacle and cruelty of Nero’s Rome, thrilling, romantic, and grand. The book that gave the toga epic its shape.

Themes
SettingRome, 1st century CE

Imperial Rome under Nero in the first century, at the height of its luxury and savagery, where a strange new faith spreading among slaves and outcasts is met with fire, cross, and the arena.

About the author

Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846–1916), Poland’s beloved historical novelist, won the 1905 Nobel Prize, in large part for this internationally adored epic of ancient Rome.