Here is a midsummer night’s dream of a novel, Anthony Burgess in a mood of comic whimsy. A baronet, Sir Benjamin Drayton, has received a consignment of stone statues of gods and goddesses, including Venus. A ring slipped on Venus’s finger by a young man about to be married upsets a number of arrangements, including the wedding plans.
| ISBN: | 9780393009156 |
| Publication date: | 5th April 2012 |
| Author: | Anthony Burgess |
| Illustrator: | Edward Pagram |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 148 pages |
| Genres: |
Biography, Literature and Literary studies |