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A Dance to the Music of Time

19685 pagesRandom House UK

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Follow Nicholas Jenkins and his circle of friends as they navigate the shifting social landscapes of Britain from the 1920s through the aftermath of the Second World War. This sequence of novels tracks the unexpected ways people drift in and out of each other's lives over several decades. It is a dry, observant look at class, ambition, and the inevitable passage of time.

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Anthony Powell was born in London in 1905 and was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He worked for a London publisher from 1927 to 1935. and as a film scriptwriter from 1935 to 1936. He has written reviews and literary columns for various newspapers and periodicals and was Literary Editor of Punch from 1952 to 1958. He was commissioned in the Welch Regiment in 1939 and subsequently transferred to the Intelligence Corps where he served as a liaison officer with the Allied Forces. His...

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