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Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements

by Anthony Burgess · 1974

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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.

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historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
Setting
FranceFranceMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages

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