A Week at Waterloo in 1815

ISBN-13: 9781508818731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 78 str.

Magdalene De Lancey

Opis

A Week at Waterloo in 1815 is a Napoleonic war history by Magdalene De Lancey. The subject--a deathbed scene--might seem at first sight to be a trite and common one. The mise-en-sce--the Battle of Waterloo--alone however redeems it from such a charge; and the principal actors play their part in no common-place or unrelieved tragedy. "Certainly," as Bacon says, "Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: For Prosperity doth best discover Vice; But Adversity doth best discover Vertue."