Bonaparte: Alexander Dumas

Napoleon Bonaparte is the first emperor of France, a brilliant commander and a legendary statesman. A decade after his death, Alexander Dumas Sr., the author of the Three Musketeers and Count Monte Cristo, wrote a historical and biographical novel about a man who changed the world of his era. Dumas traces Napoleon’s life path between the two islands – Corsica and St. Helena: between the sunny edge where he was born, and the gloomy place of death in exile. Bonaparte’s dawn occurs at twenty -four years old, when he becomes a brigade general. The next years are the years of the ascent of the new military and political star. The triumphal victories of his army change the map of Europe, one after another country bow their heads in front of the French leader. But not Russia. The aspirations of world domination collapse in the difficult conditions of the Russian winter, luck leaves Napoleon, ahead – defeat under Waterloo and a link to the distant island of St. Helena. The last chord of the novel is the will of Napoleon Bonap …

Author
Dumas Alexander
Translator
Pozdnyakov I.E., Pozdnyakova M.N.
Publisher
ABC, 2012
Series
Classic (soft)
Genre
Classical foreign prose