Download or read book Venusberg written by Anthony Powell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venusberg is a city in an unnamed Baltic state, to which Powell's young hero, named Lushington, travels by ship in 1930 and falls in love with his own foreign Venus. This is a social comedy, and it's packed with Nazis, countesses, misunderstandings, fatal accidents, and assassins.