Napoleon's Legacy: A 20-Volume Journey Through History
Twenty Volumes of War, Empire, Exile, and the European ImaginationBy Leo Tolstoy, Alexandre Dumas, L. Mühlbach, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Eleanor C. Price, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Frederick Whishaw, Max Pemberton, Henry Seton Merriman, G. A. Henty, James Grant, Warwick Deeping, Charles Downer Hazen
Length389h 14m
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Napoleon's Legacy: A 20-Volume Journey Through History assembles an expansive literary archive of the Napoleonic age and its afterlives. Across historical fiction, adventure narrative, romance, memoir-like reconstruction, political reflection, and military history, the collection traces how empire reshaped Europe's battlefields, courts, households, and imaginations. Its most compelling juxtapositions set sweeping campaigns beside intimate dramas of loyalty, exile, ambition, and loss, revealing Napoleon not merely as a historical figure but as a durable cultural symbol. The contributors represent a broad nineteenth- and early twentieth-century tradition of historical storytelling, from continental European novelists to British chroniclers of war, empire, and popular adventure. Their varied national perspectives illuminate competing memories of revolution, conquest, restoration, and national identity. Together, these voices situate the Napoleonic period within the development of modern historical fiction and demonstrate how literary narrative mediates between documented events and inherited legend. Recommended for students, historians, and general readers alike, this ambitious twenty-volume set offers an exceptional opportunity to compare styles, ideologies, and narrative scales within one thematic library. Readers will find both educational breadth and sustained critical dialogue, as each work complicates the others' visions of power, heroism, and historical consequence.
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GenreHistorical Fiction, General Fiction
Length389 hrs 14 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 4, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The History of the Russian Campaign (Annotated)
2Napoleon's Legacy: A 20-Volume Journey Through History
3Introduction:
4Napoleon (Alexandre Dumas) (pt. 1)
5Napoleon (Alexandre Dumas) (pt. 2)
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6Napoleon (Alexandre Dumas) (pt. 3)
7Napoleon (Alexandre Dumas) (pt. 4)
8The History of Napoleonic Wars (Charles Downer Hazen)
9The First Wars (The Era of Directory)
10The Consulate
11The Early Years of the Empire
12The Empire at Its Height
13The Decline and Fall of Napoleon
14Novels:
15The Whites and the Blues (Alexandre Dumas)
16PROLOGUE THE PRUSSIANS ON THE RHINE (pt. 1)
17PROLOGUE THE PRUSSIANS ON THE RHINE (pt. 2)
18PROLOGUE THE PRUSSIANS ON THE RHINE (pt. 3)
19PROLOGUE THE PRUSSIANS ON THE RHINE (pt. 4)
20THE THIRTEENTH VENDÉMIAIRE (pt. 1)
21THE THIRTEENTH VENDÉMIAIRE (pt. 2)
22THE THIRTEENTH VENDÉMIAIRE (pt. 3)
23THE EIGHTEENTH FRUCTIDOR (pt. 1)
24THE EIGHTEENTH FRUCTIDOR (pt. 2)
25THE EIGHTEENTH FRUCTIDOR (pt. 3)
26THE EIGHTH CRUSADE (pt. 1)
27THE EIGHTH CRUSADE (pt. 2)
28The Companions of Jehu (Alexandre Dumas) (pt. 1)
29The Companions of Jehu (Alexandre Dumas) (pt. 2)
30The Companions of Jehu (Alexandre Dumas) (pt. 3)
31The Companions of Jehu (Alexandre Dumas) (pt. 4)
32The Companions of Jehu (Alexandre Dumas) (pt. 5)
33The Companions of Jehu (Alexandre Dumas) (pt. 6)
34The Companions of Jehu (Alexandre Dumas) (pt. 7)
35The Companions of Jehu (Alexandre Dumas) (pt. 8)
36The Companions of Jehu (Alexandre Dumas) (pt. 9)
37Empress Josephine (L. Mühlbach)
38BOOK I. THE VISCOUNTESS BEAUHARNAIS. (pt. 1)
39BOOK I. THE VISCOUNTESS BEAUHARNAIS. (pt. 2)
40BOOK I. THE VISCOUNTESS BEAUHARNAIS. (pt. 3)
41BOOK II. THE WIFE OF GENERAL BONAPARTE. (pt. 1)
42BOOK II. THE WIFE OF GENERAL BONAPARTE. (pt. 2)
43BOOK II. THE WIFE OF GENERAL BONAPARTE. (pt. 3)
44BOOK III. THE EMPRESS AND THE DIVORCED. (pt. 1)
45BOOK III. THE EMPRESS AND THE DIVORCED. (pt. 2)
46BOOK III. THE EMPRESS AND THE DIVORCED. (pt. 3)
47Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia (L. Mühlbach)
48BOOK I. (pt. 1)
49BOOK I. (pt. 2)
50BOOK I. (pt. 3)
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