Abstract
The article looks at Henryk Sienkiewicz’s short novel On the Bright Shore – one of his lesser-known works – which can be best classified both as a traditional romance and a tendentious novel. The author of the article outlines the history of the novel’s composition, demonstrating that – in all probability – it was created from unused fragments of other literary projects. The analysis focuses on the main characters, the erotic motifs and the history of the novel’s critical reception. Sienkiewicz’s work received rather unfavorable reviews, and – as the author of the article remarks – in fact, it is full of various fixed patterns, conventions and stereotypes that the Polish novelist employed in his other, more ambitious texts.
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