The Man of Destiny

By: Shaw, George Bernard

Book Excerpt: he contrary, he has swallowed them all in hisboyhood, and now, having a keen dramatic faculty, is extremelyclever at playing upon them by the arts of the actor and stagemanager. Withal, he is no spoiled child. Poverty, ill-luck, theshifts of impecunious shabby-gentility, repeated failure as awould-be author, humiliation as a rebuffed time server, reproofand punishment as an incompetent and dishonest officer, an escapefrom dismissal from the service so narrow that if the emigrationof the nobles had not raised the value of even the most rascallylieutenant to the famine price of a general he would have beenswept contemptuously from the army: these trials have ground theconceit out of him, and forced him to be self-sufficient and tounderstand that to such men as he is the world will give nothingthat he cannot take from it by force. In this the world is notfree from cowardice and folly; for Napoleon, as a mercilesscannonader of political rubbish, is making himself useful.indeed, itRead More

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798730514393
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"