Emperor's Body
Against the historical backdrop of the French expedition in 1840 to retrieve Napoleon's body from Saint Helena, two men and a woman find themselves engulfed in long-dormant and dangerous political passions.Philippe de Rohan-Chabot, an aristocratic young diplomat, is charged with bringing the body from the island prison where Napoleon died to a glorious tomb at Les Invalides in Paris. Chabot's rival is the aging diplomat and author Henri Beyle, known to posterity as Stendhal. The enigmatic and impulsive Amelia Curial must free herself from the shadow of her mother's scandalous loves and untimely death, and from the life of stale convention tha…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-07958-6
- EAN: 9780393079586
- Produktnummer: 26051756
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 268 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.9 cm x D2.7 cm 358 g
- Gewicht: 358
Über den Autor
Peter Brooks has written extensively about the nineteenth-century novel, French and English. His books include The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess; Reading for the Plot, Body Work, Psychoanalysis and Storytelling and The Emperor's Body: A Novel. After many years on the faculty at Yale University, he currently teaches at Princeton University.
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