Quo Vadis ALLTA inspiration for her Nobel Prize

inspiration for her Nobel Prize in Literature―The Master of Hestviken captures the manners

her own “perfect knight

he was hailed “as one of the most gifted interpreters of American life” (The Chicago Tribune)

to the establishment of monasticism

… They would read if they only had the right books

Quo Vadis ALLTA inspiration for her Nobel PrizeBy Henryk Sienkiewicz Translated by Jeremiah Curtin As Rome swelters under the lecherous tyranny of Emperor Nero, the young patrician Marcus Vinicius finds himself ruled by a far gentler (yet perhaps more dangerous) power: his love for the pure and beautiful Lygia. Yet Lygia is a member of that strange and fledgling cult of Christians, and as such refuses to make the Roman ways her ways. In pursuit of this seemingly unattainable woman, Vinicius is