So Runs the World

The Project Gutenberg EBook of So Runs the World, by Henryk Sienkiewicz,This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: So Runs the WorldAuthor: Henryk Sienkiewicz,Release Date: December 30, 2003 [EBook #10546]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SO RUNS THE WORLD ***Produced by Kevin Handy, Dave Maddock,Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.SO RUNS THE WORLDBY HENRYK SIENKIEWICZAUTHOR OF "QUO VADIS," ETC.Translated by S.C. de SOISSONSContentsHENRYK SIENKIEWICZZOLAWHOSE FAULT?THE VERDICTWIN OR LOSEPART FIRSTHENRYK SIENKIEWICZ.I once read a short story, in which a Slav author had all the lilies and bells in a forest bending toward each other,whispering and resounding softly the words: "Glory! Glory! Glory!" until the whole forest and then the whole worldrepeated the song of flowers.Such is to-day the fate of the author of the powerful historical trilogy: "With Fire and Sword," "The Deluge" and "PanMichael," preceded by short stories, "Lillian Morris," "Yanko the Musician," "After Bread," "Hania," "Let Us Follow Him,"followed by two problem novels, "Without Dogma," and "Children of the Soil," and crowned by a masterpiece of anincomparable artistic beauty, "Quo Vadis." Eleven good books adopted ...