The Gaudy Empire: A Novel

viii, 552 pp. 8 1/4 x 6. Jacket art by J.D. Floherty. A novel of Napoleonic France during the Second Empire. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Neumann was a well-known German writer and translator who received the Kleist Prize in 1926. His writings were banned during the Third Reich, which led to him seeking US citizenship. He worked as a screenwriter in the 1940s, and produced the first successful stage adaptation of War and Peace.