{"product_id":"the-deluge","title":"The Deluge","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York: Copernicus Society of America, 1991. First English edition thus. Publisher's full red cloth stamped in gilt with dust jacket. Octavo. Vol. 1: xxi, 842; Vol. 2: 919. Well-read, cover spines are lightly pushed inwards, and minor edge-wear to dust jackets. Overall a very-good example of this two-volume set.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally written in 1886 in Polish, this monumental work chronicles the the 17th-century Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and more specifically the devastating Swedish invasion and Northern Wars that nearly destroyed the Polish state. It is regarded as a masterpiece of Polish national prose. In 1905, Sienkiewicz earned himself the Nobel Prize for Literature for his \"outstanding merits as an epic writer.\" Thus becoming t\u003cspan class=\"yADgie\"\u003ehe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong class=\"rQesXe MPyX\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-epip=\"\" data-complete=\"true\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"yADgie\"\u003efirst Polish literary Nobel laureate in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"yADgie\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ehistory\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"rQesXe MPyX\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"yADgie\"\u003eThis version is translated by W. S. Kuniczak, and is widely celebrated as the definitive modern translation of the book, having adapted the text so that it reads like a robust, modern epic while maintaining the 17th-century atmosphere. And rescuing it from being lost to the Western World. \u003cmark class=\"MAeH b6AQX\" data-wiz-attrbind=\"class=ivvuD_16\/cFwyDc\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-epip=\"\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwiXgoOt_6qXAxVjN4YAHYauCQoQuJAPegYIAAgIEAM\" data-complete=\"true\" data-processed=\"true\" data-sae=\"\"\u003e\u003c!--TgQPHd|||[[[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[247864,null,0]]]]--\u003e\u003c\/mark\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-os-fs=\"\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yester","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60193684619550,"sku":"UN-0030","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1082\/2094\/0574\/files\/Henryk-Sienkiewicz-The-Deluge-First-Edition-English-Hardcover-0001.jpg?v=1791480944","url":"https:\/\/fromyester.com\/products\/the-deluge","provider":"Yester","version":"1.0","type":"link"}