Book #103695

Earthly Powers - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Anthony Burgess, John Anthony Burgess Wilson

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980.

Price: $50.00

Just about Fine in price-clipped dust-jacket; is a novel of the future, set in a society in which the world's major political and economic levers are in the hands of a small number of families.

The society is divided into three classes: the nobility, the middle class, and the working class. The nobility rule the middle class and the working class, while the middle class controls the military and the secret police.

The story centers around the struggle of a working-class family to gain political power.; 8vo; $10.00.