Imprint: Vintage
Published: 11/09/1997
ISBN: 9780099752110
Length: 256 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
Weight: 181g
RRP: £12.99
The Emperor's Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories and myths, absurdities and simple facts that have accumulated around Napoleon and his sojourn here. It follows him through the eyes of those who lived with him, who guarded him, who managed only to catch a brief glimpse of him, alive or dead.
It is also a personal account: a description of Julia Blackburn's own journey to St Helena and at the same time a journey through the private memories and associations evoked by the telling of this poignant and curious story.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 11/09/1997
ISBN: 9780099752110
Length: 256 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 16mm x 129mm
Weight: 181g
RRP: £12.99
A melancholy and exquisitely bizarre essay on fame, morality and the vanity of human wishes
Moving and original... Julia Blackburn writes like an angel
Pure enchantment, stranger than fiction