A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
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Series: Dance to the Music of Time
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ISBN10: 0226677141
ISBN13: 9780226677149
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 31 1995
Pages: 732
Weight: 1.67
Height: 1.58 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780226677149
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 31 1995
Pages: 732
Weight: 1.67
Height: 1.58 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
Read the novel that is #43 on the Modern Library's 100 Best of the 20th Century list and the Guardian called a comic masterpiece and the New York Times praised as immensely entertaining. A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark work of fiction, praised by readers and critics and other novelists throughout the 75 years since the first volume was published. Equal parts funny and heartbreaking, clever and moving, Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times, A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I and carries through the 1950s, with all the changes of society, characters, and relationships that those shifting eras bring.
Four very different young men on the threshold of manhood dominate this opening volume of A Dance to the Music of Time. The narrator, Jenkins-a budding writer-shares a room with Templer, already a passionate womanizer, and Stringham, aristocratic and reckless. Widmerpool, as hopelessly awkward as he is intensely ambitious, lurks on the periphery of their world. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, these four gain their initiations into sex, society, business, and art. A masterpiece of modern fiction, Powell's epic creates a rich portrait of life in England between the wars. Reading Powell, says the New York Times, is like living someone else's life, inextricably entangled with your own. Give this first volume a try, and you'll find characters and scenes and insights that will stay with you for the rest of your life. Includes these novels:
A Question of Upbringing
A Buyer's Market
The Acceptance World
A Question of Upbringing
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