Anthony Powell's famous `Time' sequence of books deftly choreographs the lives of more than three hundred characters over a period of seventy years and chronicles the whole century. Now, Mandarin are specially reissuing the four omnibus volumes to tie in to the forthcoming Channel Four production, [...]
Anthony Powell's famous `Time' sequence of books deftly choreographs the lives of more than three hundred characters over a period of seventy years and chronicles the whole century. Now, Mandarin are specially reissuing the four omnibus volumes to tie in to the forthcoming Channel Four production, [...]
Anthony Powell's famous `Time' sequence of books deftly choreographs the lives of more than three hundred characters over a period of seventy years and chronicles the whole century. Now, Mandarin are specially reissuing the four omnibus volumes to tie in to the forthcoming Channel Four production, [...]
The opening novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-novel sequence, "A Dance to the Music of Time".
Part of the twelve-novel sequence, "A Dance to the Music of Time".
This series 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.[...]
A fourth novel in twelve-novel sequence, "A Dance to the Music of Time".
Part of the twelve-novel sequence, "A Dance to the Music of Time".
A second novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-novel sequence, "A Dance to the Music of Time."
A novel that is written by Anthony Powell.
BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Pro[...]
Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud - such are the oddballs whose antics animate these early novels from the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high so[...]
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. 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. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the fir[...]
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. 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. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first c[...]
In this third volume of 'Dance to the Music of Time, ' we again meet Widmerpool, doggedly rising in rank; Jenkins, shifted from one dismal army post to another; Stringham, heroically emerging from alcoholism; Templer, still on his eternal sexual quest. Here, too, we are introduced to Pamela Flitton,[...]
The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers, author of the definitive and acclaimed Matisse: The LifeAnthony Powell: the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an undisputed classic of English literature. Spanning twelve spectac[...]
Just down from Oxford in the depression of the Thirties, young Blore-Smith has the confidence of the callowest of youths, and the security of a sizeable private income. But when a car accident causes him to bump into Maltravers, an almost-famous film director, and Chipchase, a dinstinctly amateur ps[...]
Originally published in Germany in 1955, and in England and the United States in 1958, this classic memoir of WWII by a man who was an acknowledged military genius and probably Germany's top WWII general, is now made available again. Field Marshal Erich von Manstein described his book as a personal [...]
An illustrated guide to interesting geological areas of England.