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NAPOLEON
The Legacy and the Real Extraordinary Man Behind It
- Translated by
- John B. Larner
2023
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In "Napoleon," Alexandre Dumas delivers a captivating narrative that intertwines historical fact with rich storytelling, reflecting the tumultuous era of the French Revolution and the rise of one of history's most controversial figures. Dumas employs a vivid, accessible prose style, masterfully weaving together dramatic events and personal intrigues, accentuated by his characteristic flair for dialogue and character development. The book not only chronicles Napoleon's ascension and militar...
Napoleon's Legacy: A 20-Volume Journey Through History
Twenty Volumes of War, Empire, Exile, and the European Imagination
2023
EN
Napoleon's Legacy: A 20-Volume Journey Through History assembles an expansive literary archive of the Napoleonic age and its afterlives. Across historical fiction, adventure narrative, romance, memoir-like reconstruction, political reflection, and military history, the collection traces how empire reshaped Europe's battlefields, courts, households, and imaginations. Its most compelling juxtapositions set sweeping campaigns beside intimate dramas of loyalty, exile, ambition, and loss, revea...
NAPOLEON (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. The Legacy and the Real Extraordinary Man Behind It
- Translated by
- John B. Larner
2021
EN
Alexandre Dumas's Napoleon is a vivid biographical portrait of the soldier-statesman whose ascent reshaped modern Europe. Rather than offering a detached academic chronicle, Dumas presents Napoleon's life with the dramatic pacing, narrative color, and moral intensity familiar from his historical fiction. The book belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of Romantic historiography, where great individuals are treated as forces of destiny, and where political events become scenes of chara...
NAPOLEON
The Legacy and the Real Extraordinary Man Behind It
- Translated by
- John B. Larner
2023
EN
In "Napoleon," Alexandre Dumas embarks on a sweeping historical exploration of one of history's most enigmatic figures, Napoleon Bonaparte. With Dumas's signature flair for vivid storytelling, the book intricately weaves together drama, biography, and political commentary, immersing the reader in the tumultuous world of the French Revolution and the ensuing rise of the Napoleonic Empire. Dumas utilizes a pulsating prose style, rich in character development and dialogue, capturing the compl...
The Aftermath of Napoleonic Wars: 20 Historical Novels
Twenty Historical Novels of Exile, Restoration, Intrigue, and Post-Waterloo Europe
2023
EN
The Aftermath of Napoleonic Wars: 20 Historical Novels gathers a wide-ranging nineteenth- and early twentieth-century reimagining of Europe in the shadow of imperial conquest. Across romance, adventure narrative, political chronicle, military fiction, mystery-inflected storytelling, and psychological realism, these works trace the unsettled consequences of revolution, restoration, nationalism, and social change. Battlefield memory and courtly intrigue stand beside tales of exile, espionage...
Napoleon (Summarized Edition)
Enriched edition. From Corsican Origins to Exile on St. Helena: A Historical Biography of the French Emperor—European Conquests, Military Genius, Personality, Legacy
2026
EN
In Napoleon, Alexandre Dumas crafts a brisk yet panoramic life of the Emperor, tracing Bonaparte's rise from Corsican outsider to architect of Empire and his eclipse on St Helena. Written in the energetic cadence of the feuilleton, the book fuses documentary extracts and novelistic tableaux—Austerlitz gleams, Moscow burns, the Hundred Days race. Dumas balances campaign narrative with civic transformation: the Code, the concordat, and plebiscitary propaganda. Within nineteenth‑century Roman...
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Many memoirs of the Napoleonic period are recounting, more or less interesting dependant on the author, of the events of their service interspersed by anecdotes of interesting events, Elzéar Blaze eschewed that style of reminiscence and left a singular view of his time in the Grande Armée. His memoirs are highly stylised, divided into the 'themes' of military life, and eruditely written by an educated man of the era, who combined wit with a eye for an anecdote. He covers the different aspe...
2022
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Frenchman Louis de Laval is the son of an exiled aristocrat, whose uncle is trying to persuade him to return to his native country to join Napoleon's army. It soon becomes apparent however that his uncle has lured him back under false pretences, and Louis finds himself in considerable danger as he gets caught up in an intrigue which threatens the life of the emperor he has come to support. Full of treachery and double dealings, this is a thrilling short story from the 'Sherlock Holmes' aut...
2009
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Considered one of the best books ever written, "War and Peace" has remained in the upper echelon of world literature because it masterfully captures an intimate view of humanity on an epic scale. Through the use of fictional narrative, Tolstoy utilizes a huge cast of characters, centering on five aristocratic Russian families in 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars. These characters, particularly Pierre, Prince Andrei, and the beautiful Natasha, demonstrate different human struggles that are a...
The Eagle of the Empire
A Story of Waterloo
2019
EN
In "The Eagle of the Empire," Cyrus Townsend Brady deftly crafts a gripping historical narrative set against the backdrop of the Roman Empire at its zenith. This novel intricately weaves themes of ambition, betrayal, and loyalty through the eyes of a young soldier navigating the complexities of imperial politics. Brady's prose is rich and evocative, embodying the spirit of the time while maintaining a swift pace that captivates the reader. The richly drawn characters and meticulously resea...
2014
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Many memoirs of the Napoleonic period are recounting, more or less interesting dependant on the author, of the events of their service interspersed by anecdotes of interesting events, Elzéar Blaze eschewed that style of reminiscence and left a singular view of his time in the Grande Armée. His memoirs are highly stylised, divided into the 'themes' of military life, and eruditely written by an educated man of the era, who combined wit with an eye for an anecdote. He covers the different asp...
2025
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L. Mühlbach was renowned for her historical fiction, which often depicted significant events and figures from various periods in history. "A Conspiracy of the Carbonari" likely delves into the political intrigue and upheaval surrounding the Carbonari, a secret society in Italy during the 19th century.The Carbonari played a role in the movement for Italian unification and independence from foreign rule, particularly from Austria. The novel may explore the clandestine activities, alliances, ...











