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Burgess, Anthony
by Napoleon Symphony
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 039447614X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394476148
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About This Item
New York. 1974. May 1974. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket.Remainder Mark. 039447614x. 366 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. keywords: Literature England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - NAPOLEON SYMPHONY: A NOVEL IN FOUR MOVEMENTS is Anthony Burgess's fictional recreation of the life and world of Napoleon Bonaparte, which he said he found elephantine fun' to write. Its four movements follow the structure of Beethoven's Eroica symphony. Burgess's Bonaparte is a cuckold suffering from heartburn and halitosis who is shown as a wily seducer of Alexander. His conquest of Egypt is a central theme of the novel, which gives a comic but detailed and revealing portrait of an Arab and Muslim society under occupation by a Christian western power. Eroica' was originally dedicated to Bonaparte; then, when Napoleon crowned himself Emperor, Beethoven re-dedicated Sinfonia eroica, composta per festeggiare il sovvenire d'un grand'uomo (Heroic symphony, composed to celebrate the memory of a great man) and called it Eroica. inventory #1865 ISBN: 039447614x.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1865
- Title
- Burgess, Anthony
- Author
- Napoleon Symphony
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 039447614X
- ISBN 13
- 9780394476148
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1974
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