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

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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.

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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)"