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The Invisible Emperor
Author | : Mark Braude |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2018-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780735222618 |
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Part forensic investigation, part dramatic jailbreak adventure, Mark Braude's The Invisible Emperor is a gripping narrative history of Napoleon Bonaparte's ten-month exile on the Mediterranean island of Elba In the spring of 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated. Having overseen an empire spanning half the European continent and governed the lives of some eighty million people, he suddenly found himself exiled to Elba, less than a hundred square miles of territory. This would have been the end of him, if Europe's rulers had had their way. But soon enough Napoleon imposed his preternatural charisma and historic ambition on both his captors and the very island itself, plotting his return to France and to power. After ten months of exile, he escaped Elba with just of over a thousand supporters in tow, landed near Antibes, marched to Paris, and retook the Tuileries Palace--all without firing a shot. Not long after, tens of thousands of people would die fighting for and against him at Waterloo. Braude dramatizes this strange exile and improbable escape in granular detail and with novelistic relish, offering sharp new insights into a largely overlooked moment. He details a terrific cast of secondary characters, including Napoleon's tragically-noble official British minder on Elba, Neil Campbell, forever disgraced for having let "Boney" slip away; and his young second wife, Marie Louise who was twenty-two to Napoleon's forty-four, at the time of his abdication. What emerges is a surprising new perspective on one of history's most consequential figures, which both subverts and celebrates his legendary persona. The Invisible Emperor is both a riveting story and an original examination of how preposterous, quixotic, and grandiose ideas can suddenly leap from the imagination and into reality.
INVISIBLE EMPEROR
Author | : MARK. BRAUDE |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1781258031 |
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The Emperor s New Uniform
Author | : Maureen Haselhurst |
Publsiher | : Triangle Interactive, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2018-01-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781684446117 |
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Read Along or Enhanced eBook: ?In this classic fairy tale, retold with a twist, Enrico Empery is known as "the Emperor" of soccer. When a big championship game approaches, his teammate, Freddie Foulo, tells the Emperor about a very special soccer uniform that only the most amazing players can see.
The Emperor s New Clothes
Author | : Hans Christian Andersen |
Publsiher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2016-02-01 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1523801840 |
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Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author best known for writing children's stories including "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling." But he didn't just write short stories, and his intended audience wasn't restricted to children. In addition to his fairy tales, Andersen wrote poems, plays, novels, travel books, essays, and more. He hungered for recognition at home (Denmark) and abroad-and he got it! Eventually. Today, his stories can be read in over one hundred languages. But no matter what language they're in, Andersen's tales have got something for everyone. In them, you'll find beauty, tragedy, nature, religion, artfulness, deception, betrayal, love, death, judgment, penance, and-occasionally-a happy ending. They're complex tales, but since Andersen himself was pretty complex, we like to think that art imitates life. Or something like that. "The Emperor's New Clothes" (Danish: Kejserens nye Kl?der) is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. When the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, no one dares to say that he doesn't see any suit of clothes until a child cries out, "But he isn't wearing anything at all!" The tale has been translated into over a hundred languages. Includes a unique illustration!
Invisible Cities
Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2013-08-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780544133204 |
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Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory. “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo—Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.
Ice Emperor s Back to School Previous book
Author | : Three minutes Heat |
Publsiher | : Project Blue, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 861 |
Release | : 2022-10-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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The family's scum, the city's shame, the typical waste material. Whether it is the pride of outstanding achievements, or muddling through the fop, all look down on him, he is the complete and utter waste. A strange encounter, created the emperor of the cold, play around the city. The world gave me the cold, let me use the ice cold to send back ....
The Emperor s Body
Author | : Marvyne Jenoff |
Publsiher | : Ekstasis Editions |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0921215800 |
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In poetic language at once luminous and disturbing, The Emperor's Body presents thirteen fresh takes on old tales. In these pages fairy tales and rhymes come to life again in surprising ways, subtly and forever changed.
The Civil Sphere in East Asia
Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander,Agnes Shuk-mei Ku,Sunwoong Park |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781108427838 |
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Examines a range of contemporary social and cultural conflicts in East Asia and the echoes they have throughout the world.