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Een kopersmarkt

Een kopersmarkt

ClassicsHistorical Fiction
Pages
255
Published
2001
Language
Dutch

Synopsis

Nicholas Jenkins and his friends navigate the social circles of 1920s London as they transition from university life to the professional world. This second installment of the series observes the shifting alliances and romantic entanglements of the English upper class between the wars. It is a dry, observant look at how people change as they grow older and enter the marriage market.

Prose complexity
10/10

Vibe

SatiricalReflectiveIntellectualAtmospheric
Coming of AgeMultiple POVs

Genres

Classics Historical Fiction Literary Fiction

About the author

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Anthony Powell

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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