Narratives of Empire
Burr is the first in a series of novels in which Vidal follows generations of a fictional family through the history of the United States. The third book in the series, 1876, tells of Charlie Schuyler returning to the United States after having spent nearly forty years in Europe.
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Famous quotes containing the word empire:
“Ce corps qui s’appelait et qui s’appelle encore le saint empire romain n’était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire. This agglomeration which called itself and still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)