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Blurb: “'I find Anthony Powell as funny a writer as Evelyn Waugh and Sir Max Beerbohm' - John
Betjeman in the Daily Telegraph
'I would rather read Mr Powell than any English novelist now writing' - Kingsley Amis in the Spectator
These two comments on the author of Venusberg serve to illustrate how great his appeal has been to two generations of critics and readers. Those who have laughed at the rural antics of From a View to a Death will find in a different setting the same sharp eye for character, the same quick sense of ridicule, and the same gift for clipped and sophisticated dialogue. The story tells of a newspaperman's visit to an unreal Baltic capital which seems to exist only as a setting for diplomatic parties.
'There are chapters which are wildly funny without ever degenerating into farce, and a whole gallery of richly comic subordinate characters' - The Times Literary Supplement.”