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:
“I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.”
—Marquis De Custine (1790–1857)