Literature (Napoleon's World)

Important Pieces of Literature (film, poetry, plays and novels) from 1815 and onward.

Literature

 * Hubris - By Wilhelm Diess, published in 1920, the first of the Diess Works was in every aspect a modern tragedy, the kind Diess excelled in

Literature

 * Our Story - Published in three volumes (1995, 1997, and 1999), the Our Story saga is, to say the least, a modern American epic - totaled together, all three volumes contain a combined 2,231 pages. It tells the story of several generations of blacks living in or around Covenant, Arkansas, through the city's colorful and tumultous history. It starts in 1870 with a slave, Tom Jackson, arriving in Covenant with his master, and follows Jackson's line all the way down through the darkest days of Covenant's bloody rise to become a major urban center. It includes the famous Boss Bobby who ran the Covenant crime rings of the 1920's and 30's, it describes the horror of loss in war, the promise of the Southern Reformists, the rise of the civil rights movement in the 1960's and 70's, the dark days of the 1980's (nearly three hundred pages are devoted to teh Covenant race riot alone) and finally hope and promise for the future, ending on a promising note of William Cosby's legacy, the epic's narrative concluding in 1993. The author, Raymond Bean, won numerous literary awards for the bestselling epic and saw two miniseries adaptations made and a 2006 film, all three still unable to cover the wealth of story within the three volume-epic.