Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : W. W. Norton & Company, 2025
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (416 pages)
ISBN/ISSN
9780393350166 MWT18181410, 0393350169 18181410
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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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