The Deluge (novel)

The Deluge
Author(s)	Henryk Sienkiewicz
Original title	Potop
Country	Poland
Language	Polish
Series	The Trilogy
Genre(s)	Historical novel
Publication date	1886
Preceded by	With Fire and Sword
Followed by	Fire in the Steppe

Kmicic and his men.

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 historical Deluge which was a part of the Northern Wars.

Major characters

Historical figures:

• Janusz Radziwiłł
• Bogusław Radziwiłł
• Pawel Jan Sapieha
• John II Casimir
• Stefan Czarniecki
• Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski

Fictional characters (some based on actual historical figures):

• Andrzej Kmicic
• Michał Wołodyjowski
• Aleksandra Billewiczówna
• Jan Onufry Zagłoba
• Jan Skrzetuski
• Stanislaw Skrzetuski
• Soroka
• Roch Kowalski

Film adaptations

The novel was adapted for the screen by Polish director Jerzy Hoffman in 1974, as The Deluge. The role of Andrzej Kmicic was played by Polish actor Daniel Olbrychski.

See also

• Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• The Deluge (film)
• The Deluge
• List of historical novels

References

• Henryk Sienkiewicz, The Deluge, Hippocrene Books 1991, ISBN 0-87052-004-0
• Jerzy R. Krzyżanowski, The Trilogy Companion: A Reader's Guide to the Trilogy of Henryk Sienkiewicz, Hippocrene Books, 1992, ISBN 0-87052-221-3
• Sienkiewicz Trilogy DVD edition, 2004

External links

• The full text of the book in Polish in pl.wikisource