Anthony Powell

2017-10-05 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Hilary Spurling
Release : 2017-10-05
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 550/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Anthony Powell written by Hilary Spurling. This book was released on 2017-10-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers Anthony Powell: the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an undisputed classic of English literature. Spanning twelve spectacular volumes and written over twenty-five years, his comic masterpiece teems with idiosyncratic characters, capturing twentieth century Britain through war and peace. Drawing on Powell's letters and journals, and the memories of those who knew him, Hilary Spurling explores his life. Investigating the friends, relations, lovers, acquaintances, fools and geniuses who surrounded him, she reveals the comical and tragic events that inspired one of the greatest fictions of the age. * Discover Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time series, available in paperback and e-book from Arrow.

A Dance to the Music of Time

1995-05-31 Fiction

Author : Anthony Powell
Release : 1995-05-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 149/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Dance to the Music of Time written by Anthony Powell. This book was released on 1995-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Movement 2. The rumble of distant events in Germany and Spain presages the storm of WWII. In England, even as the whirl of marriages and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures gathers speed, men and women find themselves on the brink of fateful choices.

A Dance to the Music of Time

1995-05-31 Fiction

Author : Anthony Powell
Release : 1995-05-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 170/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Dance to the Music of Time written by Anthony Powell. This book was released on 1995-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powell's monumental 12-part series traces the lives of a wide variety of characters in London from World War I until the 1960s.

A Question of Upbringing

2011-01-18 Fiction

Author : Anthony Powell
Release : 2011-01-18
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 827/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A Question of Upbringing written by Anthony Powell. This book was released on 2011-01-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In this first volume, Nick Jenkins is introduced to the ebbs and flows of life at boarding school in the 1920s, spent in the company of his friends: Peter Templer, Charles Stringham, and Kenneth Widmerpool. Though their days are filled with visits from relatives and boyish pranks, usually at the expense of their housemaster Le Bas, a disastrous trip in Templer’s car threatens their new friendship. As the school year comes to a close, the young men are faced with the prospects of adulthood, and with finding their place in the world.

A Buyer's Market

1976

Author : Anthony Powell
Release : 1976
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Download or read book A Buyer's Market written by Anthony Powell. This book was released on 1976. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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