Napoleon Symphony

Anthony Burgess

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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.

Book Details

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: Oct 13rd, 2014
Pages: 416
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.53in - 5.54in - 1.03in - 0.73lb
EAN: 9780393350159
Categories: • Literary• Biographical & Autofiction• World Literature - England - 20th Century

About the Author

Burgess, Anthony: - Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) is the author of many works, including The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, and Re Joyce. A Clockwork Orange is one of the "100 best novels" of both Time magazine and Modern Library and is on David Bowie's Book List.

Praise for this book

All of the Burgess embellishments are here, and they sing alluringly each to each.--Sara Sanborn "New York Times"

One of Burgess's most important and experimental works.--Andrew Biswell "Daily Telegraph"

A reader who delights in succulent phrase, the zest of word play and a saucy paragraph must fall on each new work of Anthony Burgess with ravenous appetite....Burgess at his most characteristic, craziest.-- "Washington Post"

Alive, lush, lyric, human, witty and wildly comic.-- "The Nation"

Burgess sees Napoleon with a contemporary eye and all the hang-ups--hypochondria, image-massaging and, of course, Josephine. It's a novel I'm sure I will return to again and again, finding new pleasures at each reading.--Ion Trewin "Times (London)"