Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements

Download or read book Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements written by Anthony Burgess and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.