{"product_id":"2026200009131-secondhand-napoleon-symphony","title":"Napoleon Symphony","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.  \n \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48893813260507,"sku":"2026200009131-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/247b427f-cae6-44e5-8049-cd0c4b1559e0.png?v=1782040679","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200009131-secondhand-napoleon-symphony","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}