A Vision of Battlements

By Anthony Burgess

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Anthony Burgess

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Hardback

Series:

The Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess

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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 music and 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 postwar settlement 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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Andrew Biswell is Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University and Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation -- .

Release date NZ

July 1st, 2017

Author

Anthony Burgess

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Edited by Andrew Biswell

Pages

256

Series

The Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess

ISBN-13

9781526122032

Product ID

26757082

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