The Hundred Days

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The Hundred Days - Roth, Joseph
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The incomparable Joseph Roth imagines Emperor Napoleon's last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is told from two perspectives, that of Napoleon himself and that of the lowly, devoted palace laundress Angelica--an unlucky creature who deeply loves him. In The Hundred Days, Roth refracts the deep sorrow of their intertwined fates.

Roth's signature lyrical elegance and haunting atmospheric details sing in The Hundred Days. There may be, as James Wood has stated, no modern writer more able to combine the novelistic and the poetic, to blend lusty, undamaged realism with sparkling powers of metaphor and simile.

Product Details

Price
$22.95
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date
Pages
224
Dimensions
5.5 X 1.0 X 8.1 inches | 0.85 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9780811222785
BISAC Categories:
Historical - General

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About the Author

Joseph Roth was born in 1894 in a small Galician town on the eastern borders of the Hapsburg Empire. After serving in the Austro-Hungarian army from 1916 to 1918, he worked as a journalist in Vienna and in Berlin. He died in Paris in 1939, leaving behind thirteen novels as well as many stories and essays.
Formerly a teaching instructor at the University of Massachusetts and a tour interpreter for several museums in Deerfield, MA, Richard Panchyk has spoken at the Garvies Point Museum, Glen Cove, as well as Westbury Historical Society meetings, where he is a member. Panchyk is extensively published, including A History of Westbury, Long Island and Forgotten Tales of Long Island with The History Press.

Reviews

There is a poem on every page of Joseph Roth.--Joseph Brodsky
This is not perhaps the real Napoleon, but it's certainly a remarkable creation that leaps off the page.--Jake Kerridge
What a marvelous writer! Read him now, you can thank me later.--Michael Dirda
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