Napoleon Symphony
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A bold and inventive work of historical fiction, Napoleon Symphony by Anthony Burgess presents the life of Napoleon Bonaparte through a dazzling literary conceit: the novel's four-part structure mirrors that of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, originally composed in Napoleon's honour. Burgess chronicles Napoleon's turbulent existence — his passionate love affairs, his conquests in the bedroom and on the battlefield, and his ultimate downfall — with wit, linguistic bravura, and an almost musical sense of rhythm and pacing. The result is a rich, layered portrait of one of history's most iconic figures, rendered through the same bold imagination that produced A Clockwork Orange. Sweeping in scope yet intimate in detail, it stands as one of the most formally ambitious novels of the twentieth century.
Author: Anthony Burgess
Format: Paperback
Published: 1976, Corgi
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A bold and inventive work of historical fiction, Napoleon Symphony by Anthony Burgess presents the life of Napoleon Bonaparte through a dazzling literary conceit: the novel's four-part structure mirrors that of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, originally composed in Napoleon's honour. Burgess chronicles Napoleon's turbulent existence — his passionate love affairs, his conquests in the bedroom and on the battlefield, and his ultimate downfall — with wit, linguistic bravura, and an almost musical sense of rhythm and pacing. The result is a rich, layered portrait of one of history's most iconic figures, rendered through the same bold imagination that produced A Clockwork Orange. Sweeping in scope yet intimate in detail, it stands as one of the most formally ambitious novels of the twentieth century.