NAPOLEON'S SISTER
IMPERIAL VENUS. By Edgar Maass. Invincible Press, Wellington. HIS is a pot-boiling book, but it would be misleading to call it salacious. Though it contains some spice, those who buy it for that ingredient only will be disappointed, It is, however, as spicy as the facts permitted it to be, even when the author gave himself the cover of fiction. Fiction much of it is, but it is taking liberty with the word to call it.a\novel. It is a novelettish biography of Napoleon’s sister Pauline, a beauty whose private life kept tongues wagging as long as her beauty lasted. But the Pauline of these pages is about as faithful to the Pauline of history as the Napoleon is; and that is about as faithful as the average film story or radio serial. The book does, however, leave a little behind if you have not much knowledge to begin with-including the melodramatic suggestion that Pauline loved her great brother pathologically.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 409, 24 April 1947, Page 32
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161NAPOLEON'S SISTER New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 409, 24 April 1947, Page 32
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