Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows

by Ruth Scurr

Book Overview

"How should one envisage this subject? With a great pomp of words, or with simplicity?" --Charlotte Bront?, "The Death of Napoleon"

The most celebrated general in history, Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) has for centuries attracted eminent male writers. Since Thomas Carlyle first christened him "our last Great Man," regiments of biographers have marched across the same territory, weighing campaigns and conflicts, military tactics and power politics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631492411
• ISBN13: 9781631492419
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"