Quo Vadis - Couverture souple

Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 157748777X ISBN 13 : 9781577487777

Editeur : Barbour Pub Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Book by Sienkiewicz Henryk

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Rome during the reign of Nero was a glorious place for the emperor and his court; there were grand feasts, tournaments for poets, and exciting games and circuses filling the days and nights. The pageantry and pretentious displays of excess were sufficient to cloy the senses of participants as well as to offend the sensitive. Petronius, a generous and noble Roman, a man of the world much in favor at the court of Nero, is intrigued by a strange tale related by his nephew Marcus Vinitius of his encounter with a mysterious young woman called Ligia with whom Vinitius falls madly in love. Ligia, a captured King's daughter and a one-time hostage of Rome, is now a foster child of a noble Roman household. She is also a Christian.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Quo Vadis means where are you going? and is an allusion to the New Testament verse John 13:36: "Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards." Quo Vadis tells of a love that develops between a young Christian woman, Ligia and Marcus Vinicius, a Roman patrician. It takes place in the city of Rome under the rule of emperor Nero. Sienkiewicz studied the Roman Empire extensively and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1905 for this book. This powerfull book has been translated into more than forty languages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Barbour Pub Inc
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 157748777X
• ISBN 13: 9781577487777
• Reliure: Broché
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• Personne responsable: non disponible