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Anthony Burgess draws on his love of music and history in this novel he called “elephantine fun” to write.

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"A reader who delights in succulent phrase, the zest of word play and a saucy paragraph must fall on each new work of Anthony Burgess with ravenous appetite.…Burgess at his most characteristic, craziest." -- Washington Post
"All of the Burgess embellishments are here, and they sing alluringly each to each." -- Sara Sanborn - New York Times
"One of Burgess’s most important and experimental works." -- Andrew Biswell - Daily Telegraph
"Alive, lush, lyric, human, witty and wildly comic." -- The Nation
"Burgess sees Napoleon with a contemporary eye and all the hang-ups—hypochondria, image-massaging and, of course, Josephine. It’s a novel I’m sure I will return to again and again, finding new pleasures at each reading." -- Ion Trewin - Times (London)

Napoleon Symphony A Novel in Four Movements

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      Publisher: WW Norton & Co
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/10/2014
      ISBN13: 9780393350159, 978-0393350159
      ISBN10: 0393350150

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Anthony Burgess draws on his love of music and history in this novel he called “elephantine fun” to write.

      Trade Review
      "A reader who delights in succulent phrase, the zest of word play and a saucy paragraph must fall on each new work of Anthony Burgess with ravenous appetite.…Burgess at his most characteristic, craziest." -- Washington Post
      "All of the Burgess embellishments are here, and they sing alluringly each to each." -- Sara Sanborn - New York Times
      "One of Burgess’s most important and experimental works." -- Andrew Biswell - Daily Telegraph
      "Alive, lush, lyric, human, witty and wildly comic." -- The Nation
      "Burgess sees Napoleon with a contemporary eye and all the hang-ups—hypochondria, image-massaging and, of course, Josephine. It’s a novel I’m sure I will return to again and again, finding new pleasures at each reading." -- Ion Trewin - Times (London)

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