A Dance To The Music Of Time: Complete 12-Volume Set
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few works of English literature match the sheer ambition and elegance of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, a monumental twelve-novel sequence that chronicles the shifting fortunes of British society from the aftermath of the First World War through the social upheavals of the 1970s. Narrated by the quietly observant Nicholas Jenkins, the sequence unfolds across a vast cast of characters — aristocrats, artists, military men, and opportunists — whose lives intersect and diverge with the unpredictable rhythm of a piece of music, none more magnetic or menacing than the indefatigable Kenneth Widmerpool. The individual volumes — A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer's Market, The Acceptance World, At Lady Molly's, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, The Kindly Ones, The Valley of Bones, The Soldier's Art, The Military Philosophers, Books Do Furnish a Room, Temporary Kings, and Hearing Secret Harmonies — each stand as accomplished works in their own right, yet together they form an intricate, interlocking portrait of an entire civilisation in transition. Powell's prose is distinguished by its wry, ironic intelligence and its almost Proustian capacity to illuminate the vast through the particular, the universal through the precisely observed social detail. The sequence draws inevitable comparisons to Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, yet remains distinctly, drily English in its sensibility — sardonic where Proust is lyrical, deadpan where he is rhapsodic. This complete Fontana paperback edition presents all twelve volumes in their matching uniform format, offering readers the rare opportunity to immerse themselves fully in what many critics regard as the greatest sustained fictional achievement of twentieth-century British literature — a world so fully realised that, once entered, it is almost impossible to leave.
Author: Anthony Powell
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few works of English literature match the sheer ambition and elegance of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, a monumental twelve-novel sequence that chronicles the shifting fortunes of British society from the aftermath of the First World War through the social upheavals of the 1970s. Narrated by the quietly observant Nicholas Jenkins, the sequence unfolds across a vast cast of characters — aristocrats, artists, military men, and opportunists — whose lives intersect and diverge with the unpredictable rhythm of a piece of music, none more magnetic or menacing than the indefatigable Kenneth Widmerpool. The individual volumes — A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer's Market, The Acceptance World, At Lady Molly's, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant, The Kindly Ones, The Valley of Bones, The Soldier's Art, The Military Philosophers, Books Do Furnish a Room, Temporary Kings, and Hearing Secret Harmonies — each stand as accomplished works in their own right, yet together they form an intricate, interlocking portrait of an entire civilisation in transition. Powell's prose is distinguished by its wry, ironic intelligence and its almost Proustian capacity to illuminate the vast through the particular, the universal through the precisely observed social detail. The sequence draws inevitable comparisons to Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, yet remains distinctly, drily English in its sensibility — sardonic where Proust is lyrical, deadpan where he is rhapsodic. This complete Fontana paperback edition presents all twelve volumes in their matching uniform format, offering readers the rare opportunity to immerse themselves fully in what many critics regard as the greatest sustained fictional achievement of twentieth-century British literature — a world so fully realised that, once entered, it is almost impossible to leave.