Venusberg

By Anthony Powell

Book Overview

Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0445042842
• ISBN13: 9780445042841
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Popular Library
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

As good as 'A Dance'.

Having recently completed Powell's opus, 'A Dance to the Music of Time' for the third time, I decided to read his other, earlier, works. Venusberg is classic Anthony Powell with his acute observations of human nature, his sly digs at those who need it and overall, his wonderful eye for humour that is at once supremely funny yet subtle. It had me smiling to myself from start to finish. Apart from being a very funny novel, the book can also be seen as a travelogue and as an observation of a part of Europe between the wars. Politics also plays a large part in the novel but it is Powell's examination of human nature that makes this such a classic. An excellent addition to anyone's library.