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Napoleon symphony

Published
Jan 1974
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General Fiction General Fiction
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365

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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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Feb 1980 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393009645
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First Edition Jan 1974 Knopf ISBN 039447614X
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Oct 2014 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN B00QI4RGAE
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Oct 2014 Serpent's Tail (UK) ISBN 1847658911
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Dec 2014 Norton, W.W. & Company, Inc. ISBN 0393350169
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