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  Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive

  Transcriber's Notes:

  1. Page scan source: https://www.archive.org/details/delugeanhistori00siengoog

  2. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe]. [.Z] represents Z with a dot above it.

  THE DELUGE.

  Vol. I.

  THE WORKS OF HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ.

  AUTHORIZED UNABRIDGED TRANSLATIONS BY JEREMIAH CURTIN.

  LIBRARY EDITION.

  * * *

  Historical Romances.

  _Poland, Turkey, Russia, and Sweden_.

  With Fire And Sword. 1 vol. The Deluge. 2 vols. Pan Michael. 1 vol.

  _Rome in the time of Nero_.

  "Quo Vadis." 1 vol.

  Novels of Modern Poland.

  Children of the Soil. 1 vol. Without Dogma. 1 vol. (Translated by Iza Young.)

  Short Stories.

  Hania, and Other Stories. 1 vol. Sielanka, a Forest Picture, and Other Stories. 1 vol.

  * * *

  On the Bright Shore. 1 vol. Let Us Follow Him. 1 vol.

  *** The above two are also included in the volume entitled "Hania."

  Yanko the Musician, and Other Stories, 1 vol. Lillian Morris, and Other Stories, 1 vol.

  *** The tales and sketches included in these two volumes are nowreprinted with others by Sienkiewicz in the volume entitled "Sielanka,a Forest Picture, and Other Stories."

  THE DELUGE.

  An Historical Novel

  OF

  POLAND, SWEDEN, AND RUSSIA.

  A SEQUEL TO

  "WITH FIRE AND SWORD."

  BY

  HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ.

  _AUTHORIZED AND UNABRIDGED TRANSLATION FROM THE POLISH BY_

  JEREMIAH CURTIN.

  IN TWO VOLUMES.

  Vol. I.

  BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1915.

  _Copyright, 1891_, by Jeremiah Curtin.

  * * * * *

  Printers S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U.S.A.

  TO HON. CHARLES A. DANA,

  Editor of "The Sun," New York.

  Sir,--I beg to dedicate to you this translation of a remarkable work,touching a period eventful in the history of the Poles, and the Slavrace in general. You will appreciate the pictures of battle and trialcontained in these volumes, for you know great events not from booksmerely but from personal contact. You receive pleasure from variousliteratures, and from considering those points of character by whichnations and men are distinguished; hence, as I think, THE DELUGE willgive you some mental enjoyment, and perhaps turn your attention to anew field of history.

  JEREMIAH CURTIN.

  Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology, November 25, 1891.