Napoleon Symphony: A Novel in Four Movements

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.

• Author
• Anthony Burgess

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 416

• Publisher
• W. W. Norton Company

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780393350159

• Characters
• Josephine de Beauharnais, Alexander I of Russia, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Napoleon Bonaparte

• Settings
• France, St. Helena

• Genres
• fiction, literature, music, france, novels, unfinished, classics

• Release date
• 2014