At Lady Molly's
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: Reprint
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and wear along edges and spine. Page Condition: Yellowed with age and tanning. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
At Lady Molly's is the fourth volume in Anthony Powell's monumental twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time, a sweeping and satirical panorama of twentieth-century British life. Set in the 1930s, the novel chronicles the narrator Nicholas Jenkins as he moves through a web of aristocratic drawing rooms, eccentric households, and shifting social alliances — all centred on the enigmatic gatherings hosted at Lady Molly Jeavons's famously chaotic home. Powell's prose is elegant and wryly observational, capturing the subtle class anxieties and personal entanglements of the English upper-middle classes with surgical precision. The novel introduces several key characters who recur throughout the sequence, weaving new threads into Powell's grand tapestry of memory, time, and human ambition. Witty, psychologically astute, and deeply literary, it stands as one of the finest achievements in British post-war fiction.
Author: Anthony Powell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Heinemann
Genre: Classic fiction
Edition: Reprint
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and wear along edges and spine. Page Condition: Yellowed with age and tanning. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
At Lady Molly's is the fourth volume in Anthony Powell's monumental twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time, a sweeping and satirical panorama of twentieth-century British life. Set in the 1930s, the novel chronicles the narrator Nicholas Jenkins as he moves through a web of aristocratic drawing rooms, eccentric households, and shifting social alliances — all centred on the enigmatic gatherings hosted at Lady Molly Jeavons's famously chaotic home. Powell's prose is elegant and wryly observational, capturing the subtle class anxieties and personal entanglements of the English upper-middle classes with surgical precision. The novel introduces several key characters who recur throughout the sequence, weaving new threads into Powell's grand tapestry of memory, time, and human ambition. Witty, psychologically astute, and deeply literary, it stands as one of the finest achievements in British post-war fiction.