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)
"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 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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