Napoleon Symphony
A grand and tragi-comic symphony to Napoleon Bonaparte, this novel unteases and reweaves Napoleon's life - from the first great days of his campaigns in 1796 to exile and death on St. Helena a quarter of a century later. Burgess' Bonaparte is a cuckold, afflicted with heartburn and halitosis while enacting a wily seduction of Tsar Alexander, conquering Egypt and crowning himself Emperor. Witty, sardonic, intellectual, Napoleon Symphony is Burgess at his most challenging and inventive. In creating a novel based on a musical form, Burgess is playing with structure, from the grand, ambitious shape of the novel itself, through to the finer compos…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84765-891-3
- EAN: 9781847658913
- Produktnummer: 14503223
- Verlag: Profile
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'336 KB
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