Dance to the Music of Time
Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s,…
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Dance to the Music of Time
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I.
These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz.
In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses.In this climactic volume of A Dance to