New York, NY — July 11, 2026 — Henryk Sienkiewicz wrote as if history were still burning—turning sieges, empires, romances, and moral struggles into fiction of overwhelming scale and urgency; winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Literature “because of his outstanding merits as an epic writer,” he remains one of the great architects of the historical novel, a writer who gave the past motion, grandeur, and human consequence. Carlini Classics now presents a major new Sienkiewicz series featuring On the Field of Glory, Hania, Quo Vadis, Knights of the Cross, Children of the Soil, The Deluge, Desert and Wilderness, Pan Michael, With Fire and Sword, and Without Dogma.
Born in 1846, Sienkiewicz became one of the most celebrated Polish authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, earning international renown through historical fiction of unusual scale and emotional force. His great seventeenth-century trilogy—With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, and Pan Michael—helped define his reputation, while Quo Vadis, set in Nero’s Rome, became his best-known international success. Alongside those monumental works, novels such as Without Dogma and Children of the Soil showed his range in psychological and contemporary fiction, while On the Field of Glory, Knights of the Cross, and Desert and Wilderness extended his historical and adventure imagination into new eras and settings.
Together, these books reveal a writer of extraordinary breadth. Sienkiewicz could stage battles and dynastic struggles on an epic scale, but he could also turn inward, writing with subtlety about conscience, decadence, love, social change, and the burdens of identity. Whether in the intimate emotional textures of Hania and Without Dogma or the grand historical architecture of Quo Vadis, Knights of the Cross, and the trilogy, his fiction remains animated by moral seriousness, narrative momentum, and a powerful belief in literature’s ability to preserve memory.
The covers for this new Carlini Classics series were designed by Annabella Hong, a graphic design and art student of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). As seen in Hania, Quo Vadis, Knights of the Cross, and Children of the Soil, Hong’s approach combines luminous, painterly illustration with elegant typography and a soft but dramatic palette, giving each book a distinct emotional atmosphere while sustaining a unified visual identity across the series. Roses veil a half-smiling face in Hania, fire curls around lovers in Quo Vadis, steel and armor dominate Knights of the Cross, and the storks of Children of the Soil evoke both rural tenderness and ancestral continuity.
“Sienkiewicz wrote novels that move with the force of legend but never lose sight of individual feeling,” said Charles Carlini, founder of Casa Carlini. “He understood how private lives are shaped by history, and how history itself can be made vivid through story.”
More than patriotic monuments or period epics, Sienkiewicz’s works remain deeply readable novels of action, memory, conviction, and desire. With this new Carlini Classics series, readers are invited to rediscover a Nobel laureate whose fiction made the past feel immediate, dramatic, and alive.
The Henryk Sienkiewicz series from Carlini Classics is available now through Casa Carlini, major booksellers, and Amazon.
About Carlini Classics
Carlini Classics publishes thoughtfully designed editions of essential literary works, bringing enduring voices into conversation with contemporary readers.
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Casa Carlini is an independent publishing house devoted to books that linger—on the shelf, in the mind, and in conversation, long after the last page is turned.
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