![]() Every one is richer in wit, irony, history, learning and breathtaking prose than nine novels by nine of our most overrated contemporary novelists. It is hardly necessary to offer a precis of each tale. Other stories include a delicious retelling of "Der Rosenkavalier," a Sherlock Holmes musical mystery, an account of how Attila the Hun brings down the Roman empire for the unrequited love of a Roman temptress, and a mischievous and sharp meditation on adultery ("The Wine of the Country"). Here are nine quintessentially Burgessian tales: one in which Shakespeare meets his contemporary Cervantes another in which Debussy meets Browning and one in which Hamlet, Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern appear as students of necromancy in Wittenberg (and miss the main event of the raising from the dead of Helen of Troy because they must hurriedly return to Denmark). $18.95 THE DEVIL'S MODE is Anthony Burgess at his best - which is so good as to make mere mortals like myself limp with envy and admiration. THE DEVIL'S MODE By Anthony Burgess Random House. ![]()
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