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...
The kindly ones
The kindly ones
Synopsis
The sixth volume of A Dance to the Music of Time shifts between the eve of the Great War and the start of World War II. Nicholas Jenkins reflects on his childhood at Stonehurst and the eccentric figures of his past as the threat of a new global conflict looms. It is a meditation on the cyclical nature of history and the ghosts that haunt the British upper class.
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The kindly onesUnknown, 1991
253 pages
MandarinLanguage: EnglishISBN: 97807493065265 editions available
