The Fifty Days: Napoleon in England
Author | : Jean Duhamel |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jean Duhamel |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Patrick O’Brian |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2011-12-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0007429444 |
Napoleon has escaped from Elba – the Hundred Days have begun.
Author | : Joseph Roth |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2016-01-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811222799 |
Now in paperback, Napoleon’s return to the throne in Paris, as imagined by the incomparable Joseph Roth Joseph Roth paints a vivid portrait of Emperor Napoleon’s last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is told from two perspectives, that of Napoleon himself and that of the lowly, devoted palace laundress Angelica—an unlucky creature who deeply loves him. In The Hundred Days, Roth refracts the deep sorrow of their intertwined fates. Roth’s signature lyrical elegance and haunting atmospheric details sing in The Hundred Days. “There may be,” as James Wood has stated, “no modern writer more able to combine the novelistic and the poetic, to blend lusty, undamaged realism with sparkling powers of metaphor and simile.”
Author | : Napoleon I (Emperor of the French) |
Publisher | : Grosset & Dunlap |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jenny Uglow |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2015-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466828226 |
A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historian We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars—but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank, a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers—how did the war touch their lives? Jenny Uglow, the prizewinning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray and Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Austen, Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century.
Author | : Philip G. Dwyer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2014-07-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317882709 |
Two hundred years ago, Napoleon was at the apogee of his power in Europe. This broad ranging reassessment explores the key themes presented by his extraordinary career: from his rise to power and the foundation of the imperial state, to the final defeat of his grand vision following the doomed invasion of Russia. It was a period of almost uninterrupted war in Europe, the consquences of victory or failure repeatedly transforming the political map. But Napoleon’s impact reached much deeper than this, achieving the ultimate destruction of the ancien regime and feudalism in Europe, and leaving a political and juridical legacy that persists today.
Author | : Jeremy Paxman |
Publisher | : ABRAMS |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2001-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1468303589 |
The acclaimed author of On Royalty explores the mysteries of English identity in this “witty, argumentative book bursting with good things” (The Daily Telegraph). A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Being English used to be easy. As the dominant culture in a country that dominated an empire that dominated the world, they had little need to examine themselves and ask who they were. But something has happened over the past century. A new self-confidence seems to have taken hold in Wales and Scotland, while others try to forge a new relationship with Europe. What exactly sets the English apart from their British compatriots? Is there such a thing as an English race? Renowned journalist and bestselling author Jeremy Paxman traces the invention of Englishness to its current crisis and concludes that, for all their characteristic gloom about themselves, the English may have developed a form of nationalism for the twenty-first century. “Paxman’s irrepressibly witty bit of Anglo scholarship offers stirring insights.” —Vanity Fair
Author | : Ben Carver |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017-10-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137573341 |
This book provides the first thematic survey and analysis of nineteenth-century writing that imagined outcomes that history might have produced. Narratives of possible worlds and scenarios—referred to here as “alternate histories”—proliferated during the nineteenth century and clustered around pressing themes and emergent disciplines of knowledge. This study examines accounts of undefeated Napoleons after Waterloo, alternative genealogies of western civilization from antiquity to the (nineteenth-century) present day, the imagination of variant histories on other worlds, lost-world fictions that “discovered” improved relations between men and women, and the use of alternate history in America to reconceive the relationship between the New World and the Old. The “untimely” imagination of other histories interrogated the impact of new techniques of knowledge on the nature of history itself. This book sheds light on the history of speculative thought, and the relationship between literature and the history of ideas in the nineteenth century.
Author | : Ted Gott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780724103553 |
This panoramic volume tells the story of French art, culture and life from the 1770s to the 1820s: the first French voyages of discovery to Australia, the stormy period of social change with the outbreak of the French Revolution, and the rise to power of the young Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine.