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William Hazlitt is one of the main writers of the English language. His fame as a critic, essayist, and communal commentator rates with famous brands Samuel Johnson and George Orwell. He considered his justly famous Life of Napoleon his most significant work. In this particular, the fourth level of the work, William Hazlitt needs us through the fantastic turning point in Napoleon's life: his invasion of Russia. He shows us the situation in Europe at that time: England managing the sea, France managing the land, and only Russia kept as a land-based hazard to France. He also explores the changes in Napoleon's life and brain: his divorce from Josephine, his relationship to Maria Louisa, and his companionship with Emperor Alexander - a companionship that turned to deep enmity. Lastly, he shows us Napoleon adrift in a world strange to him as he tried to deal with a war different from any of his previous campaigns: a war across great expanses of open up land, in which he cannot pin his adversary down and push him to a decisive combat, as he previously frequently done in Italy and Germany. Hazlitt also explores how Napoleon's campaigns in Spain also led him into unfamiliar modes of procedure and political situations that didn't fit the models he previously used up to that time. Hazlitt was a lifelong admirer of Napoleon and of the France Trend, but his admiration was not blind. His research is both keen and clear-sighted. At this stage in Napoleon's job, he centered more on the fantastic situations, less on the person and his brain. It is an appropriate focus; at this time in his life, Napoleon's entire existence was covered up in those great situations, and his personal life was submerged in them. Hazlitt sometimes transcends and sometimes falls sufferer to the prevailing behaviour of his day. His thinking sometimes juxtaposes highly progressive ideas with informal bigotry. His word has been kept as he composed it; it is valuable to listen to and remember that even great brains have placed ideas we prefer to think we have overcome. The Life of Napoleon was originally printed in four quantities from 1828 to 1830, not long before Hazlitt's death. It was later republished in a restricted model of six quantities by the Grolier Society. This audiobook is dependant on that edition.
