Venusberg

by Anthony Powell

Book Overview

A major early work of the great British satirist Anthony Powell. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0749311975
• ISBN13: 9780749311971
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Random House (UK)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 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.