Hundred Days

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In Joseph Roth's book, the story of Napoleon's last snatch at glory is framed both through the eyes of Bonaparte and his infatuated young laundress named Angelina - with rather more said by her about the Emperor's dirty handkerchiefs than the Duke of Wellington.

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"[Roth's] Napoleon is a vivid depiction of waning greatness." -- "The Boston Review"

Author Bio

Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was an Austrian novelist best known for his family saga "Radetzky March" and for his novel of Jewish life, "Job." He fought in the Austrian army in World War I, and worked as a novelist and journalist in Frankfurt, becoming a leading Jewish intellectual of the era. With the rise of Nazism, he lived the rest of his life in exile.