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Quo Vadis?
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Description for Quo Vadis?
Paperback. Translator(s): Kuniczak, W.S. Num Pages: 579 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 32. Weight in Grams: 802.
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 participants as well as to offend the sensitive. Petronius, a generous and noble Roman, a man of the world much in favor at the court of Nero, is intrigued by a strange tale related by his nephew Marcus Vinitius of his encounter with a mysterious young woman called Ligia with whom Vinitius falls ... Read more
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 participants as well as to offend the sensitive. Petronius, a generous and noble Roman, a man of the world much in favor at the court of Nero, is intrigued by a strange tale related by his nephew Marcus Vinitius of his encounter with a mysterious young woman called Ligia with whom Vinitius falls ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
579
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Weight
796g
Number of Pages
589
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780781805506
SKU
V9780781805506
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