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,...