Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements by Anthony Burgess

Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements

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  • Genre Literary Fiction
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
  • Released
  • Size 1.45 MB
  • Length 498 Pages

Description

Anthony Burgess draws on his love of music and history in this novel he called “elephantine fun” to write.

A grand and affectionate tragicomic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte that teases and reweaves Napoleon’s life into a pattern borrowed—in liberty, equality, and fraternity—from Beethoven’s Third “Eroica” Symphony, in this rich, exciting, bawdy, and funny novel Anthony Burgess has pulled out all the stops for a virtuoso performance that is literary, historical, and musical.

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