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In his memoirs, dictated while he was in exile on the island of St. Helena, Napoleon named his first love as Desiree Clary, a silk merchant's daughter from Marseilles. In the breathtaking novel simply titled Desiree, author Annemarie Selinko chronicles the life of the woman who was Napoleon's fiancee, a woman who rose from being a commoner to becoming a wife of a General to Queen of Sweden and Norway.
As a little girl Desiree received a diary from her beloved father and through it she narrates her story. Desiree first meets Napoleon through his brother Joseph, who will later become her brother-in-law, and takes a fancy to the young and determined General. Even though their relationship would die young and he would break her heart, Napoleon and Desiree would remain in each other's lives until his quest for world domination ended in his exile to St. Helena.
Desiree is a mesmerizing look at the rise and fall of Napoleon told from the woman who first held his heart and knew him like no other. It is touching and beautifully written and no historical fiction readers' library is complete without this exceptional, un-put-down-able novel!
As a little girl Desiree received a diary from her beloved father and through it she narrates her story. Desiree first meets Napoleon through his brother Joseph, who will later become her brother-in-law, and takes a fancy to the young and determined General. Even though their relationship would die young and he would break her heart, Napoleon and Desiree would remain in each other's lives until his quest for world domination ended in his exile to St. Helena.
Desiree is a mesmerizing look at the rise and fall of Napoleon told from the woman who first held his heart and knew him like no other. It is touching and beautifully written and no historical fiction readers' library is complete without this exceptional, un-put-down-able novel!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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For the very first time I am very, very disappointed with Amazon.co.uk.
Only after ordering this book did I learn that this book is in German.
I think that a book in a foreign language should me marked in a special way, after all - when ordering a book in England, I am allowed to presume that the book is in English.
Only after ordering this book did I learn that this book is in German.
I think that a book in a foreign language should me marked in a special way, after all - when ordering a book in England, I am allowed to presume that the book is in English.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Unable to review product as the book was written in German which i can neither read or write.There was no mention of this when the product was ordered, therefore the product was returned.
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