KRASZEWSKI J.I. - Boży gniew. Powieść historyczna (Czasy Jana Kazimierza), 1-3 complete [in 1 vol.]. 1st ed. Warsaw 1886.

Author: KRASZEWSKI J.[ózef] I.[gnacy].

Title: God's Wrath. Powieść historyczna (Czasy Jana Kazimierza), 1-3 complete [in 1 volume].

• Place of issue: Warsaw
• Year of publication: 1886
• Publisher: Gebethner and Wolff/Michał Glucksberg/Maurycy Orgelbrand/G. Sennewald
• Number of pages: [4], 230; [4], 226; [4], 227
• Illustrations, maps: ---.
• Size: 18 cm
• Binding: hardback half leather of the period, gilt on the spine, decorative lining
• Condition: rubbing/soiling of binding
• ISBN: ---

Description:

Edition 1 Historical novel belonging to the series History of Poland (vol. 25).

After the great fame gained by Sienkiewicz's earlier With Fire and Sword, Kraszewski made an ambitious and risky literary attempt to depict the time of the Cossack rebellion in Ukraine in a novel that was already being written while he was imprisoned in Magdeburg. The writer treated the historical background very carefully, using mainly the diaries of Stanislaw Radziwill and the chronicle of Vespasian Kochowski, as well as studies by such historians as K. Szajnocha and L. Kubala. The author led the plot in detail to the victory at Beresteczko (mid-1651), presenting in a more superficial way the events that led to Radziejowski's exile from the country (early 1652), and treating the rest of Jan Kazimierz's reign quite briefly. The keynote in God's Wrath[a] was to show how warlike dissent and personal political ambition destroy Poles in the face of external danger.

Rare!