Napoleon symphony
By: [by] Anthony Burgess.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
Published: 1974
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Fiction.; France -- Kings and rulers -- Fiction.
Description: 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.