Antique Fiction: So Runs the World Hardcover in Dust Jacket 1898 by Henry Sienkiewicz - Polish Author

Title: So Runs the World

Author: Henry [Henryk] Sienkiewicz

Description: Light green boards pictorially stamped in black, silver and red. Light wear to head and tail of spine; minor soiling. Previous owner's name on ffep with bookseller's rubber stamp. Light tide mark in bottom margin of pages (also visible on the bottom part of the fore-edge of text block). Pages buckle a little bit when handled. Dust jacket missing bottom third of spine; worn and chipped; dark tide marks on front panel. DJ in clear archival sleeve. 290 pp. 7.75 x 5.5 inches. Translated by S. C. de Soissons. Rare in dust jacket.

Includes a thirty-two page introduction by S.C. de Soissons, a literary essay on the work of the French author Emile Zola, a short story (The Verdict), and two dramas (Whose Fault? and Win or Lose).

Henry Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) was a Polish journalist, novelist and the winner of the 1905 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Fair

Publisher: F. Tennyson Neely
Place: London [&] New York
Year: 1898

Language: English

ISBN: n/a

Keywords: fiction, drama, short story, Litwos, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish authors, Emile Zola, S. C. de Soissons,