With Fire and Sword (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, European Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz
- First Published: 1884
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical romance
- Time of Work: Seventeenth century
- Setting: Poland and the Ukraine
- Principal Characters: Pan Yan Skshetuski, Princess Helena Kurtsevich, Hmelnitski, Bogun, Prince Yeremi Vishnyevetski
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, War, Seventeenth century, Soldiers, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Poland or Polish people, Prisoners of war, Battles, Princes or princesses
- Locales: Poland, Ukraine
The Story:
It was December, 1647, in the wilderness of steppeland and marsh, when Lieutenant Yan Skshetuski found a Cossack traveler who had been attacked by unknown enemies. Grateful to Skshetuski for assisting him, the Cossack rode off after pledging friendship with the young officer.
Prince Yeremi Vishnyevetski had sent Pan Yan Skshetuski to the Khan to obtain that ruler’s aid in punishing certain Tartars who had raided the prince’s estates beyond the Dnieper. Pan Yan broke his return journey at Chigirin. There, at the inn of Dopula, he learned that the man whose...
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