_________________________Collects the first three volumes of Anthony Powell's remarkable DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME sequence: A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING; A BUYER'S MARKET; THE ACCEPTANCE WORLDAnthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous ...

Volume 2 contains novels four, five and six of the Dance To The Music Of Time sequence.Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations.This volume contains novels four, five and six of the sequence,

Volume 3 contains novels seven to nine of the Dance To The Music Of Time sequence.Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations.In this volume, containing books seven to nine of the sequence, Powell follows Nicholas Jenkins and a host of familar and ...

An English journalist encounters dangerous hijinks on the Baltic Sea in this satirical novel by the author of A Dance to the Music of Time.Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would define his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange drivers of human behavior. Scathingly funny and insightful character studies, Powell's early works reveal the stirrings o...

The opening novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time

‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘A joyous experience. I remember wishing there’d been more than twelve volumes.’ Roddy Doyle‘A long, varied, intelligent and funny narrative that will be a joy to us all for years to come.’ Philip Larkin‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature....

A wealthy Londoner falls victim to conmen on a journey through interwar Europe in this early novel by the celebrated author ( New York Times).Unsavory artists, aristocratic nitwits, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud—such are the oddballs who animate the early novels of Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire and dry wit, Powell built his comedies on the foibles of British high society between the wars. These slim yet vastly entertaining novels rev...

‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘The ironies are darker, the comic lights as funny as ever.’ Financial Times‘The finest English comic novel of the period.’ Sunday Times‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Now in the first volume’s 75th anniversary year,...

Arthurian legend and cruise ship gossip entwine in this "profoundly touching, comic novel" by the celebrated author of A Dance to the Music of Time ( Chicago Tribune).Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Be...

‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘One of the greatest pleasures of my reading life.’ Michael Palin‘A unique joy to read.’ Sunday Times‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Now in the first volume’s 75th anniversary year, this twelve-volume series is ready to delig...

‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian‘The elegance of the style draws you in like incense to reverie.’ Sunday Times‘Gives pattern to the spectacle of human existence.’ Louisa Young‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Now in the first volume’s 75th anniversary year, t...

The first novel Anthony Powell published following the completion of his epic A Dance to the Music of Time, O, How the Wheel Becomes It! fulfills perhaps every author's fantasy as it skewers a conceited, lazy, and dishonest critic. A writer who avoids serving in World War II and veers in and out of marriage, G. F. H. Shadbold ultimately falls victim to the title's spinning—and righteous—emblem of chance. Sophisticated and a bit cruel, Wheel's tale of posthumous v...