The Deluge Volume 2

Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846 - 1916)
Translated by Jeremiah Curtin (1835 - 1906)

The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as "the Trilogy," having been preceded by With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i mieczem, 1884) and followed by Fire in the Steppe (Pan Wołodyjowski, 1886). The novel tells a story of a fictional Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth soldier and noble Andrzej Kmicic and shows a panorama of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Swedish invasion of Poland known in the Polish tradtion as „Potop” (hence the title). Kmita is a patriot who, nevertheless, unexpectedly and unwittingly finds himself on the wrong side of the conflict as a new war starts to ravage the already weakened Commonwealth. This decision costs him dearly as his beloved Olenka now sees him as a traitor. This is an epic panorama of a country that is torn not only by a war with the external enemy, but also by a struggle with unscrupulous nobles who use their country's plight as an opportunity to magnify their power and zone of influence even if that means siding with the enemy. On the other hand we also see valiant soldiers, who, both with their swords and their wits, fight to expel the invading army. - Summary by Wikipedia and Piotr Nater

Genre(s): Historical Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Chapter I p.1 KHand
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Play 02 Chapter I p. 2 KHand
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Play 03 Chapter II p. 1 KHand
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Play 04 Chapter II p. 2 KHand
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Play 05 Chapter III p. 1 KHand
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Play 06 Chapter III p. 2 KHand
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Play 07 Chapter IV Simona Rusu
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Play 08 Chapter V p. 1 Simona Rusu
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Play 09 Chapter V p. 2
Elsie Selwyn
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Play 10 Chapter VI Nadja Fernandes
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Play 11 Chapter VII KHand
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Play 12 Chapter VIII KHand
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Play 13 Chapter IX KHand
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Play 14 Chapter X KHand
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Play 15 Chapter XI KHand
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Play 16 Chapter XII Gillian Hendrie
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Play 17 Chapter XIII MajorHistory
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Play 18 Chapter XIV MajorHistory
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Play 19 Chapter XV MajorHistory
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Play 20 Chapter XVI MajorHistory
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Play 21 Chapter XVII Elsie Selwyn
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Play 22 Chapter XVIII KHand
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Play 23 Chapter XIX KHand
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Play 24 Chapter XX MajorHistory
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Play 25 Chapter XXI MajorHistory
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Play 26 Chapter XXII MajorHistory
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Play 27 Chapter XXIII MajorHistory
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Play 28 Chapter XXIV David Granville Young
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Play 29 Chapter XXV JeffE
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Play 30 Chapter XXVI JeffE
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Play 31 Chapter XXVII JeffE
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Play 32 Chapter XXVIII David Granville Young
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Play 33 Chapter XXIX David Granville Young
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Play 34 Chapter XXX David Granville Young
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Play 35 Chapter XXXI David Granville Young
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Play 36 Chapter XXXII David Granville Young
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Play 37 Chapter XXXIII David Granville Young
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Play 38 Chapter XXXIV David Granville Young
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Play 39 Chapter XXXV David Granville Young
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Play 40 Chapter XXXVI David Granville Young
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Play 41 Chapter XXXVII David Granville Young
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Play 42 Chapter XXXVIII David Granville Young
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Play 43 Chapter XXXIX David Granville Young
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Play 44 Chapter XL David Granville Young
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Play 45 Chapter XLI David Granville Young
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Play 46 Chapter XLII Lynette Caulkins
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Play 47 Chapter XLIII Lynette Caulkins
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Play 48 Chapter XLV Lynette Caulkins
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Play 49 Chapter XLIV Lynette Caulkins
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Play 50 Chapter XLVI David Granville Young
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Play 51 Chapter XLVII David Granville Young
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Play 52 Chapter XLVIII David Granville Young
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Play 53 Chapter XLIX David Granville Young
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Play 54 Chapter L David Granville Young
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Play 55 Chapter LI part 1 William Allan Jones
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Play 56 Chapter LI part 2 William Allan Jones
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Play 57 Chapter LII Andrew Gaunce
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Play 58 Chapter LIII Andrew Gaunce
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Play 59 Chapter LIV Andrew Gaunce
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Play 60 Chapter LV Hanna Ponomarenko
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Play 61 Chapter LVI Michele Eaton
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