Ogniem i mieczem vs The deluge: Which Should You Read?

Ogniem i mieczem Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1890 779 pages · ≈ 14 h 26 m · Demanding

Goodwill in the seventeenth century Polish Commonwealth has been stretched thin due to the nobility’s perceived and real oppression of the less well-off members. When the situation reaches its inevitable breaking point,…

The deluge Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1888 ★★★★☆ 4.2 681 pages · ≈ 12 h 37 m · Demanding

This is Volume 2 of the Curtin translation, first published in 1898. This is NOT the more modern Kuniczak translation of 1991 that many people prefer, despite what you can see as the book cover on the screen.