Long Day Wanes A Malayan Trilogy

"The first thing that can be said about this book is that it lives up to its title....I believe, as [Mr. Burgess] does not, that individual words can have beauty in themselves, and I also dispute his assertion that no language can be described as either beautiful or ugly. I also am impatient with his impatience regarding the value of certain component letters in their effect both on the spoken and the written word. There, Shakespeare is the great instructor. In spite of these differences, I admire this book, and recommend it srongly to anyone genuinely interested in the miracle of language."Burgess, Anthony is the author of 'Long Day Wanes A Malayan Trilogy', published 1993 under ISBN 9780393309430 and ISBN 0393309436.