by Harold Lamb · Diario El País, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788498152487
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«Carlomagno» is the historical novel by Harold Lamb, published by Diario El País in hardcover (335 pages, in Spanish).
A biographical novel about Charles, son of Pepin the Short, narrating his military campaigns, the expansion of his empire across Europe, and his coronation as emperor by Pope Leo III. It also portrays his role as a protector of culture, which spurred the founding of schools and monasteries, and his dark legend of a dissolute life and numerous love affairs.
Volume 44 of El País's Historical Novel collection (2005). Originally published in 1954 as Charlemagne: The Legend and the Man.
A read for fans of historical fiction and biographies of key figures of the European Middle Ages.
Harold Albert Lamb was an American writer, novelist, historian, and screenwriter. In both his fiction and nonfiction work, Lamb gravitated toward subjects related to Asia and the Middle East.
