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A Dance To The Music Of Time (3 Books In One) A Question of Upbringing, a Buyer's Market, the Acceptance World
by Powell Anthony
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Boston, Mass: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Hard Cover. Black hard covers / gilt lettering on spine. This is an ex-library book with a pocket and library stamps, the spine ends are bumped and there is masking tape on the cover from the DJ. Clean text with a sold binding. DJ is unclipped and is protected with a plastic covering. Some smudge on front covers. "Each succeeding volume of Mr. Powell's Music of Time series enhances its importance. The work is dry, cool, humourous, elaborately and accurately constucted and quintessentially English. "; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 214 pages .
Synopsis
A Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve-volume series of novels by Anthony Powell. One of the longest works of fiction in literature, the work is often published as four volumes of three novels each. The title, A Dance to the Music of Time, was inspired by Nicolas Poussin’s painting of the same name, which depicts the four seasons as nymphs dancing in a circle while a winged Father Time plays the harp. The epic work is narrated through the memories of Nick Jenkins, an “everyman” recalling the people he met over the previous half-century. Yet A Dance to the Music of Time is less about Jenkins and more about the metropolitan circles he inhabits. Beginning with the end of World War I and ending with the turbulence of the 1960s, the novels highlight encounters between friends and lovers who drift apart but continue to reencounter each other over time. Apart from a trip to France, some time in Ireland, and an interval in Venice, the series mainly takes place in England and is often read as a reflection of the country’s social history. In its entirety, A Dance to the Music of Time is composed of the following novels: A Question of Upbringing (1951), A Buyer's Market (1952), The Acceptance World (1955), At Lady Molly's (1957), Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960), The Kindly Ones (1962), The Valley of Bones (1964), The Soldier's Art (1966), The Military Philosophers (1968), Books Do Furnish a Room (1971), Temporary Kings (1973), and Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975). The books were a great success in both Britain and America upon their publication. The series is ranked 43rd on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. It is also listed on TIME’s “100 Best Novels” (since 1923) and the Telegraph’s list of the 20 best British and Irish novels of all time.
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Details
- Seller
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2340
- Title
- A Dance To The Music Of Time (3 Books In One) A Question of Upbringing, a Buyer's Market, the Acceptance World
- Author
- Powell Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Fifth Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Mass
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Social Life, Customs, 20th Century, Customs,, 20th Century
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Biography; Culture; England;
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