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A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement

A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement

Powell, Anthony

Paperback

Series: Dance to the Music of Time

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0226677184
ISBN13: 9780226677187
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 31 1995
Pages: 804
Weight: 2.10
Height: 2.00 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
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 to society, character, and relationships those shifting eras bring.

In this final volume of A Dance to the Music of Time, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but its costs, physical and moral, were vast. Widmerpool's wife sets a snare for the young writer X. Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age.

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.

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