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Anthony Powell

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241256550
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Anthony Powell written by Hilary Spurling and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 577 pages. 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

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226677149
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book A Dance to the Music of Time written by Anthony Powell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-05-31 with total page 744 pages. 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.

Books Do Furnish a Room

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : Fontana Press
ISBN 13 : 9780006540540
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Books Do Furnish a Room written by Anthony Powell and published by Fontana Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Question of Upbringing

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409037827
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Question of Upbringing written by Anthony Powell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 240 pages. 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.

Hearing Secret Harmonies

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226677451
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Hearing Secret Harmonies written by Anthony Powell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with a twenty-first-century twist: they’re available only as e-books. In the final volume, Hearing Secret Harmonies, Nick and his contemporaries have begun to settle into the quieter stages of later life—even as the rise of the counterculture signals that a new generation is pushing its way to the front. The darkly fascinating young Scorpio Murtlock unexpectedly draws Widmerpool into his orbit, calling to mind occult and cultish doings from earlier decades; close friends leave the stage, never to be replaced in this life; and, drawing all the long, tangled strands together, Anthony Powell sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age. "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."--ChicagoTribune "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's."--Elizabeth Janeway, New YorkTimes "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."--Naomi Bliven, New Yorker “The most brilliant and penetrating novelist we have.”--Kingsley Amis

A Buyer's Market

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book A Buyer's Market written by Anthony Powell and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Dance to the Music of Time

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226677170
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book A Dance to the Music of Time written by Anthony Powell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-05-31 with total page 748 pages. 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.

The Time of Our Singing

Author : Richard Powers
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374706417
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Time of Our Singing written by Richard Powers and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The last novel where I rooted for every character, and the last to make me cry.” - Marlon James, Elle From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory and the Oprah's Book Club selection Bewilderment comes Richard Powers's magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted—and divided—family, set against the backdrop of postwar America. On Easter day, 1939, at Marian Anderson’s epochal concert on the Washington Mall, David Strom, a German Jewish émigré scientist, meets Delia Daley, a young Black Philadelphian studying to be a singer. Their mutual love of music draws them together, and—against all odds and their better judgment—they marry. They vow to raise their children beyond time, beyond identity, steeped only in song. Jonah, Joseph, and Ruth grow up, however, during the civil rights era, coming of age in the violent 1960s, and living out adulthood in the racially retrenched late century. Jonah, the eldest, “whose voice could make heads of state repent,” follows a life in his parents’ beloved classical music. Ruth, the youngest, devotes herself to community activism and repudiates the white culture her brother represents. Joseph, the middle child and the narrator of this generation-bridging tale, struggles to find himself and remain connected to them both. Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing is a story of self-invention, allegiance, race, cultural ownership, the compromised power of music, and the tangled loops of time that rewrite all belonging.

The Military Philosophers

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226677427
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book The Military Philosophers written by Anthony Powell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with a twenty-first-century twist: they’re available only as e-books. The ninth volume, The Military Philosophers (1968), takes the series through the end of the war. Nick has found a place, reasonably tolerable by army standards, as an assistant liaison with foreign governments in exile. But like the rest of his countrymen, he is weary of life in uniform and looking ahead to peacetime. Until then, however, the fortunes of war continue to be unpredictable: more names are cruelly added to the bill of mortality, while other old friends and foes prosper. Widmerpool becomes dangerously entranced by the beautiful, fascinating, and vicious Pamela Flitton; and Nick’s old flame Jean Duport makes a surprising reappearance. Elegiac and moving, but never without wit and perception, this volume wraps up Powell’s unsurpassed treatment of England’s finest yet most costly hour. "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."--ChicagoTribune "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's."--Elizabeth Janeway, New YorkTimes "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."--Naomi Bliven, New Yorker “The most brilliant and penetrating novelist we have.”--Kingsley Amis

Invitation To The Dance

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446428893
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Invitation To The Dance written by Hilary Spurling and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary, Invitation to the Dance contains extensive Character, Book, Painting and Place indices, creating a magnificent database of Powell's imagination and England's cultural landscape. This is a masterpiece of 'extreme ingenuity' detailing over four hundred characters and one million words of Powell's lively fifty-year dance of fiction and fact. 'Hilary Spurling's exhaustive analysis of the novel's characters supplies a master-key for the reader of Anthony Powell.

The Dance of Time

Author : Michael Judge
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611455111
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Dance of Time written by Michael Judge and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three streams of history created the Western calendar - from the East beginning with the Sumerians, from the Celtic and Germanic peoples in the North, and again from the East, this time from Palestine with the rise of Christianity. The author teases out the contributions of each stream.

At Lady Molly's

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446427676
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book At Lady Molly's written by Anthony Powell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 256 pages. 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 fourth volume, Nick Jenkins has settled comfortably into the world of art, culture and society as a London scriptwriter. When invited by a friend to spend the weekend in the country, he becomes acquainted with Isobel Tolland, the youngest sister of a large aristocratic family, and immediately decides they are destined to marry. Meanwhile, rumours are circulating around Nick’s old friend Widmerpool’s engagement during a gathering at Lady Molly’s. As the roaring twenties fade into the austerity of the thirties, Nick and his friends face love and heartbreak as life’s dance continues to play out.

The Soldier's Art

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780749306502
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Soldier's Art written by Anthony Powell and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1991 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published Heinemann, 1966

Old-Time Music and Dance

Author : John Bealle
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253111685
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Old-Time Music and Dance written by John Bealle and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1972, a group of young people in Bloomington, Indiana, began a weekly gathering with the purpose of reviving traditional American old-time music and dance. In time, the group became a kind of accidental utopia, a community bound by celebration and deliberately void of structure and authority. In this joyful and engaging book, John Bealle tells the lively history of the Bloomington Old-Time Music and Dance Group -- how it was formed, how it evolved its unique culture, and how it grew to shape and influence new waves of traditional music and dance. Broader questions about the folk revival movement, social resistance, counter culture, authenticity, and identity intersect this delightful history. More than a story about the people who forged the group or an extraordinary convergence of talent and creativity, Old-Time Music and Dance follows the threads of American folk culture and the social experience generated by this living tradition of music and dance.

Casanova's Chinese Restaurant

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144642765X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Casanova's Chinese Restaurant written by Anthony Powell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 240 pages. 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 fifth volume, Nick Jenkins finally seems to be settling down and enjoying the life he has made for himself in London. However, the same cannot be said of his friends, who are each dealing with their own drama and heartache. The composer Hugh Moreland is risking his marriage for a pointless affair, while, Nick’s old school pal Stringham has nearly destroyed himself with drink. But with the rumblings of war getting louder and nearer, the future is starting to look uncertain for all of them.

The Acceptance World

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : Windmill Books
ISBN 13 : 9781786090843
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Acceptance World written by Anthony Powell and published by Windmill Books. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Portrait of Sebastian Khan

Author : Aatif Rashid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781732868601
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of Sebastian Khan written by Aatif Rashid and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sebastian Khan is 380 days away from the end of college. An art history major with a fondness for the Pre-Raphaelites and a dislike of long-term commitments (romantic and otherwise), Sebastian starts dating Fatima, who's determined to transition smoothly from campus life to a stable white-collar professional career. Sebastian's membership in Model United Nations, though, takes him to colleges across North America, foisting upon him all manner of temptations and testing his commitment to Fatima and his readiness for adulthood. Part satire of college life circa 2011 and part serious exploration of art's fundamental unreality, Portrait of Sebastian Khan is a humorous coming-of-age novel about a charismatic but emotionally stunted Muslim American Don Draper, who wins as many hearts as he breaks.