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...
A young Roman soldier falls in love only to discover that his sweetheart belongs to a strange new cult--a group that meets in secret to worship their one and only god. The romance of Marcus Vinicius and Lygia unfolds amid the decadence of ancient Rome, where bloodthirsty crowds...
In Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz masterfully weaves a tale of love and faith set against the backdrop of ancient Rome. This epic novel explores the clash between the burgeoning Christian faith and a decadent empire, capturing the timeless struggle for freedom and spiritual...
First century Rome is the setting for Sienkiewicz's classic novel of love, intrigue, and Emperor Nero's persecution of Christians. Rich in historical detail the story follows the experience of Vinicius, an arrogant Roman nobleman who tries to save Princess Lygia from death.
In modern translation by W.S. Kuniczak with stunning new cover art by Dean Zachary, Nobel Prize Laureate Henryk Sienkiewicz's timeless classic Quo Vadis is a novel for the ages. Set in the 1st century shortly after the time of Christ, Sienkiewicz gives us the story of early...
PETRONIUS woke only about midday, and as usual greatly wearied. The evening before he had been at one of Nero's feasts, which was prolonged till late at night. For some time his health had been failing. He said himself that he woke up benumbed, as it were, and without power of...
PETRONIUS woke only about midday, and as usual greatly wearied. The evening before he had been at one of Nero's feasts, which was prolonged till late at night. For some time his health had been failing. He said himself that he woke up benumbed, as it were, and without power of...
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Quo Vadis tells a powerful tale of love and redemption in a time of ultimate danger -- for Christians and Romans alike. "Quo vadis Domine" is Latin for "Where are you going, Lord?" and alludes to the apocryphal Acts of Peter, in which Peter flees Rome but...