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Pan Michael closes the Trilogy begun with ‘With Fire and the Sword’ and ‘The Deluge’ : the little knight Michael Volodyovski faces the Turkish invasion of 1672 and the fall of Kamenets. Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), future Nobel laureate, wrote the Trilogy ‘to strengthen hearts’ ; Jeremiah Curtin’s authorized translation carried it to the English-speaking world. Facsimile of the Boston edition (Little, Brown), with the publisher’s period catalogue as bound.This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1893 Boston (Little, Brown) edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.