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The Flood is the second part of Henryk Sienkiewicz's historical trilogy, which also includes the novels By Fire and Sword (published by the same publishing house in 2006) and Pan Wolodiowski. The work is dedicated to the struggle of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Swedish invasion in the seventeenth century . He contrasted the traitors of the fatherland - the powerful Radziwill princes and their henchmen - with a handful of patriots around whom the main forces of the liberation movement gradually gathered . Numerous adventures of Kmytryc, enhancing the interest of the plot, allow the author to reveal to the readers a wide panorama of the life of feudal Poland.