This Is the Way We Take a Bath

from behemothing

Not my favorite Burgess, but his descriptions of people are so fun.

from Pauntley

In his preface to the 1981 edition Burgess says that the novella, first published in 1964, owed its origin to his re-discovery of a playscript written, discarded and forgotten in 1952. It seems to have been published again, in 2006, by Hesperus Press. My foxed and battered copy of the earlier edi...

from TheIdleWoman

Delightful farce in which a young man accidentally manages to marry himself to a statue of Venus on the eve of his wedding, and the chaos which ensues. Hesperus have published this along with a short story by Prosper Merimee, 'The Venus of Ille', which provides another, far more Gothic, take on t...