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On the Field of Glory: An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski

Chapter 53: WITHOUT DOGMA
By Henryk Sienkiewicz
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The novel recreates life on the eve of the second siege of Vienna, alternating intimate rural and urban scenes with military movement and travel episodes. It follows a range of figures whose journeys and interactions reveal loyalties, anxieties, and everyday customs amid harsh weather and difficult roads. Rich attention to landscape, ritual, and material detail underscores preparations for the coming campaign while exploring moral and political convictions that drive collective action. The narrative converges on the Polish relief of Vienna and reflects on sacrifice, national feeling, and the persistence of shared ideals in the face of war.






THE KNIGHTS OF THE CROSS

An Historical Romance of Poland and Germany. By Henryk Sienkiewicz. Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin. Illustrated. 2 vols. Crown 8vo. 2.00.

The greatest work Sienkiewicz has given us.--Buffalo Express.

It seems superior even to "Quo Vadis" in strength and realism.--The Churchman.

The construction of the story is beyond praise. It is difficult to conceive of any one who will not pick the book up with eagerness.--Chicago Evening Post.

There are some scenes in the book that for power and excitement remind one of the great encounter between Ursus and the bull in "Quo Vadis."--Minneapolis Tribune.

Vivid, dramatic, and vigorous.... His imaginative power, his command of language, and the picturesque scenes he sets combine to fascinate the reader.--Philadelphia Bulletin.

A book that holds your almost breathless attention as in a vise from the very beginning, for in it love and strife, the most thrilling of all worldly subjects, are described masterfully.--The Boston Journal.

Another remarkable book. His descriptions are tremendously effective; one can almost hear the sound of the carnage; to the mind's eye the scene of battle is unfolded by a master artist.--The Hartford Courant.

Thrillingly dramatic, full of strange local color and very faithful to its period, besides having that sense of the mysterious and weird that throbs in the Polish blood and infects alike their music and literature.--The St. Paul Globe.

LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY, Publishers
Boston, Massachusetts






OTHER NOVELS AND ROMANCES
by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Translated from
the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin.

CHILDREN OF THE SOIL

Crown 8vo. $1.50.

It must be reckoned among the finer fictions of our time, and shows its author to be almost as great a master in the field of the domestic novel as he had previously been shown to be in that of imaginative historical romances.--The Dial, Chicago.

HANIA, AND OTHER STORIES

With portrait. Crown 8vo. $1.50.

At the highest level of the author's genius.--The Outlook.

SIELANKA, A FOREST PICTURE

And Other Stories. With frontispiece. Crown 8vo. $1.50.

They exhibit the masterly genius of Sienkiewicz even better than his longer romances. They abound in fine character-drawings and beautiful descriptions.--Chicago Inter-Ocean.

LIFE AND DEATH AND OTHER
LEGENDS AND STORIES

Illustrated. 16mo. Decorated cloth, $1.00.

WITHOUT DOGMA

A Novel of Modern Poland. (Translated from the Polish by Iza Young.) Crown 8vo. $1.50.

A human document read in the light of a great imagination.--Boston Beacon.

LITTLE, BROWN, & COMPANY, Publishers
Boston, Massachusetts