The Hundred Days

The Hundred Days

by Joseph Roth
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/09/2012

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'This is not perhaps the real Napoleon, but it's certainly a remarkable creation that leaps off the page.' - Jack Kerridge, The Sunday Telegraph In The Hundred Days, Joseph Roth provides a poignant look at Napoleon's seemingly triumphant return to Paris from exile in March 1815. The story of Napoleon's last grasp at glory is framed both through the eyes of the Emperor himself and an infatuated young imperial laundress named Angelina Pietri. Before long, one hundred days have elapsed and war and truth have crushed the lofty dreams of both Napoleon and little Angelina. Originally published in 1935, and out of print in English for seventy years, The Hundred Days achieves Roth's aim of sending the legendary Napoleon Bonaparte out of the lofty clouds and crashing down to earth.

ISBN:
9780720614084
9780720614084
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-09-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Peter Owen Publishers
Joseph Roth

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central European culture that flourished in the dying days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born into a Jewish family in Galicia, on the eastern edge of the empire, he was a prolific political journalist and novelist.

On Hitler's assumption of power, he was obliged to leave Germany for Paris, where he died in poverty a few years later. His books include What I Saw, Job, The White Cities, The String of Pearls and The Radetzky March, all published by Granta Books.

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