Project Gutenberg 2011-01-22 Public domain in the USA. 176 Reed, Helen Leah 1926 07034325 Napoleon's Young Neighbor Produced by Heather Clark, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) "Napoleon's Young Neighbor" by Helen Leah Reed is a historical novel written in the early 20th century. The story is set in the years following Napoleon Bonaparte's defeat and his exile to the remote island of St. Helena. It follows the life of a young girl named Betsy Balcombe, who is particularly intrigued and disturbed by the arrival of the infamous Napoleon as a neighbor and political prisoner, bringing the complexities of history into her once-quiet life. At the start of the narrative, the Balcombe family, living in an idyllic cottage on St. Helena, receives the shocking news of Napoleon's imminent arrival from Elba as a prisoner due to his defeat at Waterloo. Young Betsy, initially terrified, grapples with the dichotomy of viewing Napoleon as a monster and as a human being who will live among them. Her feelings evolve as she begins to interact with the Emperor, discovering his charm and intellect, leading to a budding friendship that transforms her perception of him amidst the backdrop of war and political turmoil. The opening chapters set the stage for an exploration of innocence lost, the nature of heroism, and the strange coexistence of personal and historical narratives. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Captivity, 1815-1821 DC Text Browsing: History - European Browsing: History - General 318817 318839 2024-09-15T03:38:48.367981 2023-09-15T09:29:44.574644 text/html text/html 318212 2011-01-22T17:27:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 453760 2011-01-22T17:27:32 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 510652 2024-09-15T03:38:54.432188 application/epub+zip 515245 2024-09-15T03:38:49.992132 application/epub+zip 173686 2024-09-15T03:38:49.035990 application/epub+zip 679836 2024-09-15T03:38:57.925969 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 657936 2024-09-15T03:38:53.736960 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 317542 2022-09-16T06:38:16.382187 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 301313 301095 2024-09-15T03:38:47.644031 2023-09-15T09:29:43.921630 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 301103 2011-01-22T17:27:30 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 113161 2011-01-22T17:27:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 301103 2011-01-22T17:27:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 113080 2011-01-22T17:27:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19687 2024-09-15T03:38:58.059993 application/rdf+xml 14770 2024-09-15T03:38:49.395999 image/jpeg 4127 2024-09-15T03:38:49.216984 image/jpeg 504421 2024-09-15T03:38:48.411008 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog