by Annemarie Selinko · Longman · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582537590
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Désirée, Wife of Marshall Bernadotte is a historical novel by Annemarie Selinko, first published in 1951. The novel is written in diary form and tells the story of Désirée Clary, a young woman from Marseille who becomes engaged to Napoleon Bonaparte, but later marries Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, who later becomes King of Sweden and Norway. This edition is an adapted version for students of English as a Foreign Language (ESL), published by Longman as part of their Structural Readers series.
Annemarie Selinko was an Austrian novelist who wrote a number of best-selling books in German from the 1930s through the 1950s. Although she had been based in Germany, in 1939 at the start of World War II she took refuge in Denmark with her Danish husband, but then in 1943, they again became refugees, this time to Sweden.
