Whirlpools, a novel of modern Poland

Classic novel. According to Wikipedia: "Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (May 5, 1846 - November 15, 1916) was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. A Polish szlachcic (noble) of the Oszyk coat of arms, he was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer."