NAPOLEON AND JOSEPHINE: A LOVE STORY
Book ID/图书代码： 00530014B75998
English Summary/英文概要： ’To live through Josephine - that is the story of my life.’ So wrote the young General Bonaparte a few weeks after his marriage to the soignée and seductive widow, Josephine de Beauharnais. And although Napoleon’s marriage was certainly not the whole story of his extraordinary life, it was one of the most fascinating aspects of it.
Theirs was an attraction of opposites. The couple suited each other very well, with Josephine’s charm and languor serving as an excellent foil for Napoleon’s brusqueness and energy. Throughout his spectacular rise to power and years of triumph, Josephine proved a graceful and accomplished consort.
Yet their relationship was anything but tranquil. Besotted by Josephine during the early years of their marriage, Napoleon - in the face of her indifference and infidelity - gradually became less obsessed by her, while she, in turn, became progressively more enamoured of him. As a result, their relationship developed into one of the most intriguing, tempestuous and touching in history. Napoleon, although disillusioned, never really ceased to love Josephine and it was only her inability to bear him a child, and so present his Empire with an heir, that led him to divorce her. ’If he was ever really stirred by any emotion,’ claimed one of the Empress Josephine’s confidantes, ’it was by her and for her.’ Their story remains, quite simply, one of the greatest love stories in the world.
Theo Aronson, well known for his incisive and readable royal biographies, has found the ideal subject in the story of Napoleon and Josephine. By incorporating all the recent findings on the couple - such as the new view of Napoleon’s parents, Josephine’s love letters to Hippolyte Charles, Napoleon’s complex sexual orientation - and by making full use of his own talent for narrative and characterisation, the author has been able to present this famous romance in a fresh and absorbing fashion.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 他们相互吸引。这对恋人可谓是天作之合，约瑟芬的魅力映衬着拿破仑的军人气质和领袖能力。
在他宏伟的政治生涯和多年的优秀战绩中，约瑟芬验证了优雅和成就的完美融合。然而这两人之间的关系却不是那么一帆风顺的。在这场婚姻的最初几年里，约瑟芬却是沉醉其中，而拿破仑却始终渐行渐远，不再迷恋于这个女人，而约瑟芬，反而却更倾心于拿破仑。以至于结果是，他们的关系发展成为历史上最为有趣，最为轰烈，动人的爱情故事。拿破仑，虽然最后功成垂败，但却从未停止过对约瑟芬的爱，以及她因无法生育子嗣，沿袭帝位，而导致分手，‘如果他曾经为情所动，’约瑟芬的心腹之一后来评论道，‘那也只有是她。’这个故事依然还是这个世界上唯一一个最为伟大的，简单纯粹的爱情故事。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：’He has a feeling for the period and he writes with an eloquent and smiling simplicity.’ The New Yorker
About the Author/作者介绍： 西奥•阿伦森是为数不多的一位能获得皇室认可的一位传记作者。作为一位拉脱维亚的犹太店主儿子，他出生在南非的柯克伍德，与奈杰尔•霍桑在开普敦大学求学之前，曾就读于伊丽莎白港高中。在约翰内斯堡，他和J.Walter Thompson成为了一名商业广告艺术家，随后搬到了伦敦，在那里他还做过兼职服务员。西奥从学生时代起就对皇室充满了兴趣。1947年他在柯克伍德岔道，目睹了当时的英国国王和王后，以及伊丽莎白和玛格丽特公主，被当时人群中伊丽莎白公主的超凡魅力所吸引。几年后，他前往汉普郡的法恩伯勒的圣米迦勒修道院，瞻仰了拿破仑三世的陵墓后，决定从此励志撰写有关皇室的传记。
由于其文笔娴熟细致，文风雅致幽默，遂即逐渐成为皇室忠实的记录者，甚至被是视作为是皇室的铁杆仰慕者。他对很多皇室成员做过访问，其中包括，阿斯隆的伯爵夫人，爱丽丝公主（1981年，在其逝世后不久所发表的传记），皇太后，和玛格丽特公主，以及几个宫廷侍臣。这位短小精干的男人所醉心地聆听着所有的这些受访的者的陈述，在互动中，轻微地阿谀之词之间，而绝非是沉闷地恭维。
作者身前共著有23本书，在塞默塞特郡的弗罗姆去世，享年73岁。
Ever since the instant success of his first book The Golden Bees: The Story of the Bonapartes, Theo Aronson has steadily built up his reputation as a historical biographer specialising in the Royal Houses of Europe. Among his many widely read books are Grandmama of Europe, Crowns in Conflict: The Triumph and the Tragedy of European Monarchy 1910-1918 and The King in Love: Edward VII’s Mistresses.
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