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A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great musicand building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwarsettlement is sharp and assured.The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.… (meer)
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-What year would that be about? Mr Bloom interpolated. Can you recall the boats?/Our soi-disant sailor munched heavily awhile, hungrily, before answering./-I'm tired of all them rocks in the sea, he said, and boats and ships. Salt junk all the time./Tired, seemingly, he ceased. - - Ulysses, James Joyce.
" ... Warning of an attack may be given by tingling sensations in the limbs, impairment of vision, flashing of lights, a vision of battlements, noises in the ears, mental depression or other phenomena." - The Illustrated Family Doctor.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
"A. V. C. C.", said the big blonde Wren. "I don't think I've ever seen them letters before."
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
The Rock sank, englutted to the fading of slow chords, raising not a bubble.
A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great musicand building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwarsettlement is sharp and assured.The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.
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