num_pages: 416
description: 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 Napoleons life into a pattern borrowedin liberty equality and fraternityfrom Beethovens 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.
language: English
title: Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company