A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement

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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 chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" . 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 the background of this second volume of A Dance to the Music of Time, the rumble of distant events in Germany and Spain presages the storm of World War II. 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.

Includes these novels:
At Lady Molly's
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
The Kindly Ones

Language: English

Pages: 722

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: June 15, 1995

ISBN: 0226677168

ISBN 13: 9780226677163

A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement

Anthony Powell

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Language: English

Pages: 722

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release: June 15, 1995

ISBN: 0226677168

ISBN 13: 9780226677163

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