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Punic wars. --- Punische Kriege. --- Punic wars

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"Begun as a short story in October 1921, two months before Conrad's sixty-fourth birthday, The Rover (1923) turned out to be the writer's last completed novel. After a slow beginning plagued by bouts of ill-health, Conrad discovered, as had happened several times throughout his career, that his subject invited more expansive treatment. The short story about an ageing French seaman returning 'home' after a lifetime of adventure and vicissitude slowly evolved into a short novel, and then into a full-length one. Once Conrad got into his stride, he completed it rapidly, by dictation, between January and mid-July 1922. For it, he laid aside his work in hand, Suspense (1925), with which he was already encountering difficulties and which would remain unfinished upon his death. Escaping a troubled work that had been on his desk for some time in favour of a much smaller canvas must have had immediate appeal. It also promised a consolidation of effort: the new story draws upon roughly the same historical epoch as Suspense--the French Revolution and Napoleonic periods--eras that Conrad had read about widely and had already mined for his short stories 'The Duel' (1908) and 'The Warrior's Soul' (1917)"-- "Set in the South of France during the waning days of the French Revolution and the early years of Napoleonic rule, The Rover (1923) is the last novel that Conrad completed in his lifetime. A popular success on its publication, it explores, against the backdrop of dramatic political change and the Anglo-French hostilities leading up to the Battle of Trafalgar, the themes of personal and national identity, loyalty and love. The 'Introduction' situates the novel in Conrad's career and traces its sources and contemporary reception. Explanatory notes illuminate literary and historical references and indicate Conrad's sources. The essay on the text and the apparatus lay out the history of the work's composition and publication, detail the interventions in the text by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors and explain editorial policy. This edition of The Rover, established through modern textual scholarship, presents the novel in a form more authoritative than any so far printed."--

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815

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"What sets The Wing-And-Wing apart from Cooper's other maritime adventures is the setting: most of the action occurs in the genial Italian waters of the Bay of Naples and Gulf of Salerno, locations Cooper had visited in 1829-30 and later recalled as "the only region of the earth that I truly love." He combined the struggle for naval dominance just beginning between France and England with historical events occurring in the Kingdom of Naples, especially the role reluctantly played by Nelson, pressured by his lover Lady Hamilton, in the execution of the Neapolitan hero Admiral Caraccioli. The editors provide a historical introduction identifying Cooper's Italian sources as well as detailed explanatory notes to enable readers fully to appreciate the geographical and historical settings in the novel. This scholarly edition, the twenty-seventh in the Writings of James Fenimore Cooper, presents an accurate text drawing upon both the first edition and a lightly revised authorial text from 1850. The editors provide a full scholarly apparatus discussing their editorial choices, and the edition has been approved by scholarly peers in the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association"--

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815

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"Notre division était anéantie ; ne pouvant avancer par la route, je passais par les champs où s'entassaient derrière moi des horreurs et des chevaux blessés et mutilés, clans un état des plus horribles. Décrire ces horreurs est au-dessus de mes forces." Sous la plume du lieutenant Andreev, qui en 1812 combattait, tout jeune homme, dans les rangs de l'armée russe, l'atroce bataille de la Moskova se dérobe. Comment saisir ce que fut la campagne de Russie pour ceux qui la vécurent ? Proposer pour la première fois une histoire humaine de la guerre qui opposa l'Empire français à l'Empire russe, en s'appuyant sur des sources jusque-là négligées et des matériaux d'archives inexplorés : tel est l'objet de ce livre. Les sans-grade, civils ou simples soldats, y tiennent le même rang que les héros de guerre ; la voix du peuple russe s'y mêle à celle des grognards de la Grande Armée, pour éclairer d'un jour nouveau l'affrontement des deux géants qui déchira l'Europe.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815