Deluge Volume 1

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Historical Fiction

Authors: Henryk Sienkiewicz In Year : 1898

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Deluge Volume 1

Introduction and Personages
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII part 1
Chapter VIII part 2
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI part 1
Chapter XI part 2
Chapter XI part 3
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII part 1
Chapter XIII part 2
Chapter XIV part 1
Chapter XIV part 2
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII part 1
Chapter XVIII part 2
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI part 1
Chapter XXVI part 2
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI part 1
Chapter XXXI part 2
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXIII part 1
Chapter XXXIII part 2
Chapter XXXIV
Chapter XXXV
Chapter XXXVI
Chapter XXXVII
Chapter XXXVIII
Chapter XXXIX
Chapter XL
Chapter XLI

The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as "the Trilogy," having been preceded by With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem, 1884) and followed by Fire in the Steppe (Pan Wołodyjowski, 1886). The novel tells a story of a fictional Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth soldier and noble Andrzej Kmicic and shows a panorama of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Swedish invasion of Poland known in the Polish tradtion as „Potop” (hence the title).

Kmita is a patriot who, nevertheless, unexpectedly and unwittingly finds himself on the wrong side of the conflict as a new war starts to ravage the already weakened Commonwealth. This decision costs him dearly as his beloved Olenka now sees him as a traitor.
This is an epic panorama of a country that is torn not only by a war with the external enemy, but also by a struggle with unscrupulous nobles who use their country's plight as an opportunity to magnify their power and zone of influence even if that means siding with the enemy. On the other hand we also see valiant soldiers, who, both with their swords and their wits, fight to expel the invading army. (Summary by Wikipedia and Piotr Nater)