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The opening novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence,A Dance to the Music of Time.
Discover the extraordinary life of Anthony Powell captured by acclaimed biographer Hilary Spurling inAnthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time available now in hardback and ebook from Hamish Hamilton.
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'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers.In this first volume, Nick Jenkins is introduced to the ebbs and flows of life at boarding school in the 1920s, spent in the company of his friends: Peter Templer, Charles Stringham, and Kenneth Widmerpool.Though their days are filled with visits from relatives and boyish pranks, usually at the expense of their housemaster Le Bas, a disastrous trip in Templer s car threatens their new friendship. As the school year comes to a close, the young men are faced with the prospects of adulthood, and with finding their place in the world.
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Anthony Powell was born in 1905. After working in publishing and as a scriptwriter, he began to write for the Daily Telegraph in the mid-1930s. He served in the army during World War II and subsequently became the fiction reviewer on the TLS. Next came five years as literary editor of Punch. He was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1988. In addition to the twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell was the author of seven other novels, and four volumes of memoirs, To Keep the Ball Rolling. He died in March 2000.
Discover the extraordinary life of Anthony Powell captured by acclaimed biographer Hilary Spurling inAnthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time available now in hardback and ebook from Hamish Hamilton.
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The opening novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time
The opening novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence,A Dance to the Music of Time.
Discover the extraordinary life of Anthony Powell captured by acclaimed biographer Hilary Spurling inAnthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time available now in hardback and ebook from Hamish Hamilton.
