Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements - Softcover

Burgess, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393350150 ISBN 13: 9780393350159

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

Synopsis

Anthony Burgess draws on his love of music and history in this novel he called “elephantine fun” to write.

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

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

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0393350150
• ISBN 13: 9780393350159
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416