A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement

anthony powell

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" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). 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 the Music of Time, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral, must be counted. Pamela Widmerpool sets a snare for the young writer Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age.

Includes these novels:
Books Do Furnish a Room
Temporary Kings
Hearing Secret Harmonies

Genres fictionclassicshistorical fictionbritish literatureliterature20th centurynovelsliterary fictionhistoricalaudiobook

793 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1975

Series

A Dance to the Music of Time

This edition

Format: 793 pages, Paperback
Published: May 31, 1995 by University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226677187
ASIN: 0226677184
Language: English

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Nicholas Jenkins

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Kenneth Widmerpool

Kenneth Widmerpool is a fictional character in Anthony Powells sequence of novels, A Dance to the Music of Time.The authors most famous creation, Widmerpool appears in all twelve books comprising the cycle: by turns villain, victim, manipulato...

About the author

anthony powell

People best know British writer Anthony Dymoke Powell for A Dance to the Music of Time, a cycle of 12 satirical novels from 1951 to 1975.

This Englishman published his volumes of work. Television and radio dramatizations subjected major work of Powell in print continuously. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Powell among their list of "the fifty greatest British writers since 1945."

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