Complex sentence: Prus took characters' names where he found them, sometimes anachronistically or anatopistically; at other times (as with the priest "Samentu" in chapter 55) he apparently invented them.
Split into simpler sentences: Prus took characters' names where he found them, sometimes anachronistically or anatopistically. At other times (as with the priest "Samentu" in chapter 55) he apparently invented them.