Title: Napoleon symphony
First published: 1974
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Kings and rulers, Fiction, general, France, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, historical, general, History, English fiction
Places: France
People: Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Napoleon I, Napoleon I Emperor of the French (1769-1821)