‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘A joyous experience. I remember wishing there’d been more than twelve volumes.’ Roddy Doyle‘A long, varied, intelligent and funny narrative that will be a joy to us all for years to come.’ Philip Larkin‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature....

The opening novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time

Volume 4 contains novels ten to twelve of the Dance To The Music Of Time sequence.Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations.Volume 4 contains the last three novels in the sequence: Books do Furnish a Room; Temporary Kings; Hearing Secret Harmonie...

The second novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time

‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘Astonishingly accurate, not just the comedies of incongruity but the gathering menace of the real war beyond.’ Financial Times‘A sheer delight.’ Observer‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Now in the first volume’s 75th...

Arthurian legend and cruise ship gossip entwine in this "profoundly touching, comic novel" by the celebrated author of A Dance to the Music of Time ( Chicago Tribune).Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Be...

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‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘As magnificently comic as anything in the series.’ Sunday Times‘A literary gem.’ Claire Messud‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Now in the first volume’s 75th anniversary year, this twelve-volume series is ready to delight and...

Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud—such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high society between the wars, delving into subjects as various as psychoanalysis, the film industry, publishing, and (of course) sex. More explorations of relationships and vanity than plot-driven narrative...

A wealthy Londoner falls victim to conmen on a journey through interwar Europe in this early novel by the celebrated author ( New York Times).Unsavory artists, aristocratic nitwits, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud—such are the oddballs who animate the early novels of Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire and dry wit, Powell built his comedies on the foibles of British high society between the wars. These slim yet vastly entertaining novels rev...

‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘Powell is very like a drug, the more compelling the more you read him.’ Sunday Times‘[Has] a unique place in English literature.’ Melvyn Bragg‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Now in the first volume’s 75th anniversary year, t...

The first novel Anthony Powell published following the completion of his epic A Dance to the Music of Time, O, How the Wheel Becomes It! fulfills perhaps every author's fantasy as it skewers a conceited, lazy, and dishonest critic. A writer who avoids serving in World War II and veers in and out of marriage, G. F. H. Shadbold ultimately falls victim to the title's spinning—and righteous—emblem of chance. Sophisticated and a bit cruel, Wheel's tale of posthumous v...