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Anthony Powell

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Arrow
15 March 2005

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: A Dance to the Music of Time

Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic creates a rich panorama of twentieth-century London.

'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 fifth volume, Nick Jenkins finally seems to be settling down and enjoying the life he has made for himself in London. However, the same cannot be said of his friends, who are each dealing with their own drama and heartache. The composer Hugh Moreland is risking his marriage for a pointless affair, while, Nick's old school pal Stringham has nearly destroyed himself with drink. But with the rumblings of war getting louder and nearer, the future is starting to look uncertain for all of them.

By: Anthony Powell
Imprint: Arrow
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: No. 5
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9780099472445
ISBN 10: 0099472449
Series: A Dance to the Music of Time
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 March 2005
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 is the author of seven other novels, and four volumes of memoirs, To Keep the Ball Rolling.

Reviews for Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (#5 A Dance to the Music of Time)

I think it is now becoming clear that A Dance to the Music of Time is going to become the greatest modern novel since Ulysses -- Clive James I would rather read Mr Powell than any English novelist now writing Kingsley Amis