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A Week at Waterloo in 1815 - Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the Great Battle
The following narrative, written over eighty years ago, and now at last given to the world in 1906, is remarkable in many respects. It is remarkable for its subject, for its style, and for its literary history. The subjecta deathbed scenemight seem at first sight to be a trite and common one. The mise-en-scnethe Field of Waterlooalone 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." As to the style, it will be sufficient to quote the authority of Dickens for the statement that no one but Defoe could have told the -2-story in fiction. Its literary history is even more remarkable than either its style or its subject. It is no exaggeration to say of the narrativeas Bacon said of the Latin volume of his Essaysthat it "may last as long as Bookes last." And yet it has remained in manuscript for more than eighty years. This is probably unique in the history of literature since the Invention of Printing. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 31517
Author: De Lancey, Magdalene
Release Date: Mar 6, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English
Editor: Ward, B. R. (Bernard Rowland), 1863-
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