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Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero

by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz’s historical novel, singled out by Rand as an example of Romantic fiction.

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Ayn Rand in her 1943 Talbot portrait Ayn RandNovelist and philosopher

A historical novel she placed among the best Romantic fiction.

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Evidence details What Is Romanticism? — The Romantic Manifesto (first collected edition, 1969); undated ARI excerpt

In What Is Romanticism?, Rand singled out Quo Vadis as a top-rank novel for its integration of character, purposeful action and plot. Her judgment concerns this novel, rather than every work by Sienkiewicz. The essay was collected in The Romantic Manifesto in 1969; the linked web excerpt is undated. Paraphrase.

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Ayn Rand Institute · 1969 · accessed 2026-10-01

Article · Republished original essay excerpt

ARI republishes Rand’s own essay from The Romantic Manifesto, page 107; she singles out Quo Vadis and The Scarlet Letter as individual top-rank Romantic novels. 1969 is the first collected edition year; the linked ARI Campus republication is undated; this does not assert the essay’s original periodical date.

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