Napoleon Symphony - Softcover

Burgess, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393009645 ISBN 13: 9780393009644

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1980

Synopsis

Napoleon the tyrant, lover, general, and doomed hero are woven together in this story of his life from his early miltary campaigns and courtships to his exile and death on St. Helena

About this title

About the Author

Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) is the author of many works, including A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed, Nothing Like the Sun, Honey for the Bears, The Long Day Wanes, The Doctor Is Sick, and ReJoyce.

Review

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

“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

“One of Burgess’s most important and experimental works.”
- Andrew Biswell, Daily Telegraph

“Alive, lush, lyric, human, witty and wildly comic.”
- Nation

Edition details

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0393009645
• ISBN 13: 9780393009644
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 365