NAPOLEON
Memoirs, History, and Legend of Empire, Revolution, Waterloo, and ExileBy Charles Downer Hazen, Napoleon Bonaparte, William Milligan Sloane, Alexandre Dumas, Louis Constant Wairy, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases
Length236h 53m
About this audiobook
NAPOLEON assembles a richly variegated portrait of the emperor through history, memoir, political reflection, and imaginative re-creation. Its materials range from analytical accounts of revolutionary France and imperial statecraft to intimate recollections of courtly ritual, exile, and military ambition. The collection places Napoleonic legend beside documentary testimony, allowing the drama of battlefield command, administrative reform, and personal self-fashioning to emerge as mutually illuminating—and often contested—forms of narrative. The contributors bring markedly different relations to the Napoleonic era. Statesman Napoleon Bonaparte's own voice encounters the recollections of close observers Louis Constant Wairy, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, and Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases, whose accounts helped shape the emperor's posthumous image. Charles Downer Hazen and William Milligan Sloane represent the professional historical study of France and Europe, while Alexandre Dumas evokes the nineteenth century's powerful literary transformation of history into romance. Together, these voices trace the passage from Revolution to Empire and from lived event to enduring myth. Ideal for students, historians, and general readers, this volume offers an exceptional opportunity to examine Napoleon from several intellectual and stylistic vantage points at once. Its juxtaposition of testimony, historiography, and literature encourages critical comparison: between memory and evidence, heroism and power, legend and historical consequence. Readers will find both a broad introduction to the Napoleonic world and a stimulating dialogue about how that world has been remembered.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length236 hrs 53 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 29, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The French Revolution and Napoleon (Annotated)
26Volumes III (pt. 4)
2NAPOLEON
27Volumes III (pt. 5)
3Memories of the Man behind the Myth
28Volumes III (pt. 6)
4Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon
29Volumes III (pt. 7)
5Volumes I
30Volumes IV (pt. 1)
Show all chaptersShow less
6PREFACE.
31Volumes IV (pt. 2)
7INTRODUCTION. (pt. 1)
32Volumes IV (pt. 3)
8INTRODUCTION. (pt. 2)
33Volumes IV (pt. 4)
9INTRODUCTION. (pt. 3)
34MY RESIDENCE AT THE CAPE.
10RESIDENCE AT BRIARS. (pt. 1)
35PASSAGE TO EUROPE.
11RESIDENCE AT BRIARS. (pt. 2)
36VOYAGE FROM THE THAMES TO FRANKFORT.
12ESTABLISHMENT AT LONGWOOD. (pt. 1)
37RESIDENCE IN GERMANY. (pt. 1)
13ESTABLISHMENT AT LONGWOOD. (pt. 2)
38RESIDENCE IN GERMANY. (pt. 2)
14ESTABLISHMENT AT LONGWOOD. (pt. 3)
39FROM MY ARRIVAL AT OFFENBACH, UP TO MY RETURN TO FRANCE.
15Volumes II (pt. 1)
40POSTSCRIPT.
16Volumes II (pt. 2)
41SUPPLEMENT.
17Volumes II (pt. 3)
42TESTAMENT OF NAPOLEON.
18Volumes II (pt. 4)
43AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION.
19Volumes II (pt. 5)
44VOLUME I. — 1769-1800 (pt. 1)
20Volumes II (pt. 6)
45VOLUME I. — 1769-1800 (pt. 2)
21Volumes II (pt. 7)
46VOLUME I. — 1769-1800 (pt. 3)
22SUMMARY OF THE THREE MONTHS OF APRIL, MAY, AND JUNE.
47VOLUME I. — 1769-1800 (pt. 4)
23Volumes III (pt. 1)
48VOLUME I. — 1769-1800 (pt. 5)
24Volumes III (pt. 2)
49VOLUME I. — 1769-1800 (pt. 6)
25Volumes III (pt. 3)
50VOLUME I. — 1769-1800 (pt. 7)
More from Charles Downer Hazen, Napoleon Bonaparte, William Milligan Sloane, Alexandre Dumas, Louis Constant Wairy, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases
Alsace-Lorraine under German Rule (Annotated)Charles Downer Hazen6h 18m$2 · $0.00
The History of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars (1789-1815)Charles Downer Hazen9h 32m$1 · $0.00
Alsace-Lorraine under German RuleCharles Downer Hazen6h 10m$1 · $0.00
The Rise of Empires: 1870-1919Charles Downer Hazen13h$1 · $0.00
The Greatest Works of Charles Downer Hazen (Annotated)Charles Downer Hazen54h 36m$2 · $0.00
The Greatest Works of Charles Downer HazenCharles Downer Hazen54h 31m$1 · $0.00
The Napoleonic Wars (Annotated)Charles Downer Hazen4h 4m$2 · $0.00
The Rise of Empires: 1870-1919 (Summarized Edition)Charles Downer Hazen3h 12m$2
The Rise of EmpiresCharles Downer Hazen13h$2 · $0.00
The History of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars (1789-1815)Charles Downer Hazen9h 25m$2 · $0.00
The History of Napoleonic WarsCharles Downer Hazen3h 55m$2 · $0.00
The History of Napoleonic Wars (Annotated)Charles Downer Hazen4h 1m$2 · $0.00
The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars (Annotated)Charles Downer Hazen9h 36m$0.99 · $0.00
Geschichte der Napoleonischen KriegeCharles Downer Hazen3h 34m$4 · $0.00
The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Europe from 1789 to 1918Charles Downer Hazen26h 13m$2 · $0.00
The Rise of Empires: European History, 1870-1919 (Annotated)Charles Downer Hazen13h 9m$0.99 · $0.00
The American Revolution & The French RevolutionCharles Downer Hazen, John Fiske28h 24m$2 · $0.00
The Two Swords of ChristRaymond Ibrahim15h 55m$30
Black AF HistoryMichael Harriot15h 43m5.0 (1)$33 · $0.00
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m$46 · $0.00
The Redeemer’s ReturnArthur W. Pink13h 18m$20
The Happiest Man on EarthEddie Jaku3h 48m$7 · $0.00
MotherlandJulia Ioffe17h 52m$40 · $0.00
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m$20 · $0.00
Frederick Douglass: All 3 Memoirs in One VolumeFrederick Douglass44h 9m$2 · $0.00
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America (Annotated)Howard Irving Chapelle, Tappan Adney13h 9m$0.99 · $0.00
I've Been to the MountaintopMartin Luther King48m5.0 (2)$11 · $0.00
RevolutionariesSanjeev Sanyal11h 23m$29 · $0.00
We Crossed a Bridge and It TrembledWendy Pearlman6h$24 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m$8 · $0.00
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m$26 · $0.00
Lily's PromiseLily Ebert, Dov Forman8h 54m$29 · $0.00
Saving My EnemyBob Welch9h 11m$20
On Democracies and Death CultsDouglas Murray10h 38m$29 · $0.00
Across the RiverKent Babb11h 40m$29 · $0.00
The Red Record (Annotated)Ida B. Wells-Barnett5h 19m$0.99 · $0.00
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and BeyondJohn Lyons12h 37m$33 · $0.00
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Annotated)William Shakespeare157h 18m$2 · $0.00
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis38h 55m$30
The Jeeves and Wooster Stories: The Complete Collection (33 Books)P. G. Wodehouse21h 57m$15 · $0.00
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m$46 · $0.00
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate CollectionArthur Conan Doyle59h 49m$5 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical WritingsFyodor Dostoyevsky270h 59m$2 · $0.00
The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America (Annotated)Howard Irving Chapelle, Tappan Adney13h 9m$0.99 · $0.00
Charles Dickens: Complete Works (Annotated)Charles Dickens818h 55m$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen & Brontë Sisters (Annotated)Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë204h 15m$0.99 · $0.00
The Complete Works: Charlotte, Emily, Anne, Patrick & Branwell BrontëCharlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë138h 12m$1 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Annotated)Oscar Wilde126h 19m$2 · $0.00
L. M. Montgomery – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & MemoirsLucy Maud Montgomery155h 1m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of the Brontë Family Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë140h 13m$2 · $0.00
MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated)Mark Twain415h 9m5.0 (2)$2 · $0.00
This Side of Paradise - The Original 1920 Edition (Annotated)F. Scott Fitzgerald11h 30m$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m$18 · $0.00
The Complete Works: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Articles, Essays, Travel Sketches and Memoirs (Annotated)Anthony Trollope1096h 4m$0.99 · $0.00
Ivanhoe (Annotated)Walter Scott22h 52m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of G. K. Chesterton (Annotated)G. K. Chesterton421h 37m$1.99 · $0.00
All NovelsGeorge Orwell53h 48m$10 · $0.00
You may also like
The Collected Works of Napoleon BonaparteLouis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Ida M. Tarbell, Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Downer Hazen79h 59m$1 · $0.00
Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of NapoleonEmmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases67h 33m$2 · $0.00
Illuminated illustrations of FroissartJean Froissart1h 45m$1 · $0.00
CitizensSimon Schama36h 48m$40
History of the United States of America, Volume IVGeorge Bancroft18h 43m$30
The Alexiad (Annotated)Anna Komnene20h 48m$2 · $0.00
Napoleon's Addresses (Annotated)Napoleon Bonaparte3h 51m$2 · $0.00
Old News (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")Nathaniel Hawthorne1h 4m$2 · $0.00
Julius Caesar (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare (Annotated)William Shakespeare17h 1m$0.99 · $0.00
William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of EnglandOf Malmesbury William26h 5m$1 · $0.00
The History of England (Complete 6 Volumes)David Hume131h 50m$1 · $0.00
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (The Complete Four-Volume Edition) (Annotated)William Milligan Sloane58h 30m$2 · $0.00
Famous Composers and Their Works (Vol. 1&2)Various30h 8m$1 · $0.00
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.SSamuel Pepys8h 59m$2 · $0.00
My Memory of GladstoneGoldwin Smith1h 56m$1 · $0.00
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's QueenLiliʻuokalani12h 25m$1 · $0.00
William the ConquerorJacob Abbott5h 34m$1 · $0.00
CleopatraEmil Ludwig9h 49m$5.20 · $0.00
King JohnWilliam Shakespeare2h 28m$15
NAPOLEON - The Man Behind the Myth (Annotated)Napoleon Bonaparte, Charles Downer Hazen, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Louis Constant Wairy231h 25m$0.99 · $0.00