Blanche. The pig in Animal Farm who wrests control of Jones's farm from the other animals and becomes a tyrant is named Napoleon. Julien Sorel from The Red and the Black by Stendhal has to hide a portrait of Napoleon. Vengeance Is Mine (1899) by Andrew Balfour is a novel revolving around Napoleon's exploits during the Hundred Days and the Battle of Waterloo. Moreton Hall's novel General George (1903) focuses on the Pichegru Conspiracy plot to assassinate Napoleon. The Thunderer (1927) by L. Adams Beck (writing as "E. Barrington") is a historical novel revolving around the romance between Napoleon and Joséphine. St Helena (1936) by R. C. Sherriff So Great A Man (1937) by "David Pilgrim" (a pseudonym for John Palmer and Hilary Saint George Saunders) depicts Napoleon's life in the years 1808–1809. In Thomas B. Costain's historical novel The Last Love (1963), a dying Napoleon, banished to St Helena, tells his story to his lone companion, a girl who acts as his English translator. Napoleon is an important character in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, where considerable space is devoted to Tolstoy's interpretation of his historical role. He consequently also appears in the adaptations and films of this novel, listed in the following section. Napoleon appears briefly in the first section of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, and is extensively referenced in later sections. Noel B. Gerson's novel Emperor's Ladies (1959) focuses on Napoleon's marriage to Marie Louise of Austria. Bernard Cornwell's novel Sharpe's Devil features a meeting between Napoleon, and the fictional Richard Sharpe. He is featured in the manga Eikou no Napoleon – Eroica, written by the manga artist Riyoko Ikeda. C. S. Forester's Hornblower series of novels are mostly set during the Napoleonic Wars, in particular book 9 of the series, Commodore Hornblower focusing on the French invasion of Russia and the subsequent defence of Riga from the period of 1812 onwards, and book 10 Lord Hornblower dealing with events in France up to the defeat of Napoleon by Wellington at Waterloo. Napoleon is a main character in Ruth McKenney's novel Mirage (1956), set during the Campaign of Egypt. Napoleon is one of the two main characters in Simon Scarrow's The Revolution Quartet, which details Napoleon's life from his birth to his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo alongside that of Arthur Wellesley's. In an Archie comic story featuring Jughead Jones, he is inadvertently transported by ambulance