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. "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) Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) is the author of many works, including The Wanting Seed , Nothing Like the Sun , and Re Joyce . A Clockwork Orange is one of the "100 best novels" of both Time magazine and Modern Library and is on David Bowie's Book List.