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Een kwestie van opvoeding

Een kwestie van opvoeding

ClassicsHistorical Fiction
Pages
220
Published
2000
Language
Dutch

Synopsis

Set in the years following the Great War, this first volume of A Dance to the Music of Time follows Nicholas Jenkins and his classmates at an elite boarding school and later Oxford. It observes the shifting social hierarchies and the early ambitions of young men like the eccentric Charles Stringham and the socially climbing Widmerpool. Through dry wit and sharp observation, the story captures the transition from youth to the complexities of adult society.

Prose complexity
10/10

Vibe

ReflectiveNostalgicIntellectualSatirical
Coming of AgeAcademy

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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