The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781615547364 (1615547363)
Publish date: August 28th 1999
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Pages no: 429
Edition language: English
Series: Josephine Bonaparte (#1)
This purports to be the diary of Josephine Bonaparte from the time she was a fourteen-year-old plantation owner's daughter in Martinique in 1777 to her marriage to Napoleon in 1796. That's its weakness and it's strength. The weakness, I think, being that diary format. There are novels told in diary ...
2.5 starsI have never been interested in Napoleon, nonetheless one of his wives. But I am fascinated by the French Revolution and this book centers largely around that period of time. Also, since I had very little knowledge about Rose (aka Josephine), I was intrigued. However, I did not find the nov...
What a great introduction to Josephine (Rose). Typically I do not like the diary style of writing but Gulland skillfully makes it work. This is the first of series and I am sold. We meet Josephine as a young girl living on a sugar cane plantation and follow her to France to be married to her first h...
I could not get past the first 3 or 4 pages.This is written in a first person epistolary style. Just could not get into it. Might try another time.
An interesting and fairly readable book about Josephine Bonaparte and her amazing life. A bit choppy in the execution, but most lovers of HF should like this one. For the complete review, please go here:http://www.epinions.com/content_43421109892
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