A Dance To The Music Of Time (Four-Volume Set)
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Book: Good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
One of the towering achievements of twentieth-century English literature, A Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve-novel sequence that chronicles over fifty years of British social life, from the aftermath of World War I to the cultural upheavals of the 1970s. Narrated by the quietly observant Nicholas Jenkins, the cycle traces the interlocking lives of a vast cast of characters — aristocrats, artists, soldiers, and opportunists — orbiting the unforgettable and magnetic Kenneth Widmerpool, a figure whose relentless social climbing becomes a darkly comic emblem of ambition and self-delusion. Anthony Powell constructs his panoramic world with a prose style of remarkable precision and ironic wit, drawing on the Proustian tradition to present time not as a linear march but as a rhythmic, circling dance in which the same figures perpetually re-emerge in altered roles. The sequence argues, with devastating subtlety, that chance and coincidence govern human lives far more than will or design. Collected here in four handsome Folio Society volumes, this edition presents Powell's masterwork in a form befitting its stature — an invitation to lose oneself completely in one of fiction's most richly peopled worlds.
Author: Anthony Powell
Format: Hardback
Published: 2006, The Folio Society
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
One of the towering achievements of twentieth-century English literature, A Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve-novel sequence that chronicles over fifty years of British social life, from the aftermath of World War I to the cultural upheavals of the 1970s. Narrated by the quietly observant Nicholas Jenkins, the cycle traces the interlocking lives of a vast cast of characters — aristocrats, artists, soldiers, and opportunists — orbiting the unforgettable and magnetic Kenneth Widmerpool, a figure whose relentless social climbing becomes a darkly comic emblem of ambition and self-delusion. Anthony Powell constructs his panoramic world with a prose style of remarkable precision and ironic wit, drawing on the Proustian tradition to present time not as a linear march but as a rhythmic, circling dance in which the same figures perpetually re-emerge in altered roles. The sequence argues, with devastating subtlety, that chance and coincidence govern human lives far more than will or design. Collected here in four handsome Folio Society volumes, this edition presents Powell's masterwork in a form befitting its stature — an invitation to lose oneself completely in one of fiction's most richly peopled worlds.