{"product_id":"2026200006961-secondhand-a-dance-to-the-music-of-time","title":"A Dance To The Music Of Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition. Pages: Yellowed with age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact, hardcover binding appears solid. No visible stickers or price labels. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA masterwork of twentieth-century British literature, A Dance to the Music of Time is a sweeping twelve-novel sequence that chronicles over fifty years of English society, from the aftermath of World War I through the 1960s. Narrated by the quietly observant Nicholas Jenkins, the sequence traces the intertwining lives of a vast cast of characters — most notably the manipulative social climber Kenneth Widmerpool — as they navigate the shifting currents of class, ambition, love, and power. Powell writes with a measured, ironic wit that recalls Proust in both scope and sensibility, presenting English upper-middle-class life with extraordinary precision and dry humour. This volume collects the first three novels — A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer's Market, and The Acceptance World — which establish the series' rich social tapestry and introduce the memorable figures whose lives will interweave across the decades. It stands as one of the great achievements of the English novel, celebrated for its formal elegance and its profound understanding of human nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887994417371,"sku":"2026200006961-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/fb6ca7a5-fa15-458f-8a6d-ae7da6b5ecb4.png?v=1781751830","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200006961-secondhand-a-dance-to-the-music-of-time","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}