Napoleon Symphony by Anthony Burgess

Napoleon Symphony by Anthony Burgess

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.

"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
"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
"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)

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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ISBN 13	9780393350159
ISBN 10	0393350150
Title	Napoleon Symphony
Author	Anthony Burgess
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	2014-10-24
Number of pages	416
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