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Moscow

Frederick Whishaw

出版	DigiCat, 2022-11-13
主題	Fiction / Romance / Historical / VictorianFiction / World Literature / France / 19th Century
ISBN	EAN:8596547394648
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cEeVEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

This novel tells us about one of the essential Napoleonic campaigns through the lives of several Russian families, which changed drastically because of the war. From the very first pages, the novel captivates by a highly realistic description of the epoch. It opens with a marriage ceremony in the family of nobility. The marriage is set between a boy of ten and a girl of seven, and the marriage party is accompanied by heavy drinking of fathers and the priest, filthy jokes, and the descriptions of the dirty plates on the tables. As the events evolve, the story gives the same realistic account of the French invasion in Moscow: "During these first few days of the French occupation Moscow became a very pandemonium of pillage and violence, of smoke and fire, of orgies and of cruelties too horrible to relate." Being cast into such circumstances, the protagonists show incomparable courage and strength, inspiring more profound interest in the period's history.