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Earthly Powers
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Earthly Powers

BookPaperback
Ranking54232in
CHF22.90

Description

Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. In this epic masterpiece, Anthony Burgess plumbs the depths of the essence of power and the lengths men will go for it.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-09-946864-6
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
FormatB-format paperback
Publishing date06/05/2004
Pages656 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 129 mm, Height 198 mm, Thickness 38 mm
Weight447 g
Article no.2224622
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.9943101
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Author

Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 and educated at Xaverian College and Manchester University. He served in the British army from 1940 to 1946 and was a schoolteacher in England before becoming a colonial education officer in 1954. His Malayan trilogy of novels and a history of English literature were published while he was living in Malaya and Brunei.He became a full-time writer in 1959 and achieved a worldwide reputation as one of the most versatile novelists of his day. His writings include biographies of Shakespeare and Hemingway, critical studies of James Joyce, stage plays, and two volumes of autobiography. His work as a composer and librettist includes the Broadway musical, Cyrano, and Blooms of Dublin, an operetta based on Joyce's Ulysses.His 33 novels continue to be published all over the world. They include A Clockwork Orange, Nothing Like the Sun, The Complete Enderby, Earthly Powers, Napoleon Symphony, and Beard's Roman Women, a collaboration with the photographer David Robinson.Anthony Burgess died in London in 1993.

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