A character who works as this person’s chef is contrasted with the prostitute Villanelle in Jeanette Winterson’s novel The Passion. In another novel, a magician confounds this person by creating ships made of rain and moving the position of a river. In an auction shortly after this person’s return, a man buys a piano that had belonged to the protagonist’s best friend and returns it to her. An alternate history of a conflict centered on this historical figure is chronicled (15[1])in (*) Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. In another novel, Jos buys overpriced horses to escape the battle where this man was defeated. Although he is based on Stalin, the antagonist of Animal Farm is named for this historical figure. For 10 points, wars named for what man make up the backdrop to Vanity Fair, in which he is defeated at Waterloo? ■END■