Glorioso. Scurr è uno degli scrittori di saggistica viventi più dotati' Simon Schama, Financial Times Un ritratto rivelatore di Napoleone scritto per i nostri tempi, che esplora il suo amore per la natura e i giardini che hanno dato alla sua vita rivoluzionaria la sua luce e ombra. I giardini di Napoleone spaziano dagli uliveti della sua infanzia in Corsica, ai serragli di Giuseppina a Parigi, al giardino recintato di Hougoumont alla battaglia di Waterloo, e infine a Sant'Elena, dove poteva sedersi e scrutare il mare nei suoi ultimi mesi. In questa biografia innovativa, Ruth Scurr segue la traiettoria drammatica della vita di Napoleone attraverso la terra che coltivava e che gli offriva rifugio dalle molteplici frustrazioni della guerra e della politica. Visto attraverso gli occhi di coloro che lo conoscevano all'ombra dei suoi giardini, Napoleone emerge come una figura gigantesca resa umana, sia come l'imperatore a caccia di gloria sia come l'uomo con un vecchio cappello di paglia, appoggiato alla sua vanga. ''Immensamente soddisfacente e accattivante. Affascinante e intelligente'' Andrew Roberts, TLS ''Avvincente e originale'' The Times ''Una gioia da leggere'' Daily Telegraph * Un libro dell'anno in The Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Sunday Telegraph e History Today * Vincitore del Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2022.
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Ruth Scurr is an historian, biographer and literary critic. She teaches history and politics at Cambridge University, where she is a Lecturer and Fellow of Gonville & Caius College. Her first book, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution won the Franco-British Society Literary Prize, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and was listed among the 100 Best Books of the Decade in The Times. She reviews regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, The Telegraph and the Wall Street Journal.
A revelatory portrait of Napoleon written for our own time, exploring his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and shade.
Napoleon's gardens range from his childhood olive groves in Corsica, to Josephine's menageries in Paris, to the walled garden of Hougoumont at the battle of Waterloo, and ultimately to St Helena, where he could sit and scan the sea in his final months.
In this innovative biography, Ruth Scurr follows the dramatic trajectory of Napoleon's life through the land he cultivated and that offered him retreat from the manifold frustrations of war and politics. Seen through the eyes of those who knew him in the shade of his gardens, Napoleon emerges a giant figure made human - both as the Emperor hunting for glory and the man in an old straw hat, leaning on his spade.
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