About this book
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.
Subjects
FictionKings and rulersFiction, generalFrance, fictionFiction, historicalFiction, biographicalFiction, historical, generalHistoryEnglish fiction