Anthony Powell

Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241256558

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Anthony Powell by Hilary Spurling Pdf

'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year The long-awaited portrait of a literary master from one of our generation's greatest biographers Anthony Powell: the literary genius who gave us A Dance to the Music of Time, an undisputed classic of English literature. Spanning twelve spectacular volumes and written over twenty-five years, his comic masterpiece teems with idiosyncratic characters, capturing twentieth century Britain through war and peace. Drawing on Powell's letters and journals, and the memories of those who knew him, Hilary Spurling explores his life. Investigating the friends, relations, lovers, acquaintances, fools and geniuses who surrounded him, she reveals the comical and tragic events that inspired one of the greatest fictions of the age. * Discover Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time series, available in paperback and e-book from Arrow.

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409037828

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A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell Pdf

'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In this first volume, Nick Jenkins is introduced to the ebbs and flows of life at boarding school in the 1920s, spent in the company of his friends: Peter Templer, Charles Stringham, and Kenneth Widmerpool. Though their days are filled with visits from relatives and boyish pranks, usually at the expense of their housemaster Le Bas, a disastrous trip in Templer’s car threatens their new friendship. As the school year comes to a close, the young men are faced with the prospects of adulthood, and with finding their place in the world.

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226677446

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Temporary Kings by Anthony Powell Pdf

Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with a twenty-first-century twist: they’re available only as e-books. In this penultimate volume, Temporary Kings (1973), Nick and his contemporaries are at the height of their various careers in the arts, business, and politics. X. Trapnel is dead, but his mystery continues to draw ghoulish interest from readers and academics alike—as well as from his lover, Pamela Widmerpool. Kenneth Widmerpool, meanwhile, is an MP with mysterious connections beyond the newly dropped Iron Curtain, but he continues to be tormented by Pamela; a spectacular explosion, Nick can’t help but realize, is imminent. "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."--Chicago Tribune "A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's."--Elizabeth Janeway, New York Times "One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."--Naomi Bliven, New Yorker “The most brilliant and penetrating novelist we have.”--Kingsley Amis

Author : Nicholas Birns
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1570035490

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Understanding Anthony Powell by Nicholas Birns Pdf

Nicholas Birns provides a fresh examination of the British writer's career and growing reputation in this introduction to his work. Birns takes a global view of Powell's corpus, situating his works in context and explaining his place among Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Henry Green, in the second generation of British modernists. Birns explains how Powell and his compatriots pioneered a "next wave" modernism in which experimentation and traditional narrative combined in a sustainable mode.

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : England
ISBN : OCLC:1070504959

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Books Do Furnish a Room by Anthony Powell Pdf

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409037972

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The Military Philosophers by Anthony Powell Pdf

'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In this ninth volume, Nick Jenkins, now a captain, is working in military liaison. When he receives the tragic news of the death of an old friend, it is an ever-present reminder of the way things used to be, especially when Widmerpool finds himself engaged again, this time to the notorious Pamela Flitton. As the war’s toll is mounting, Nick, like the rest of his compatriots, is weary of life in uniform and looking ahead to peacetime.

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1310738314

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From a View to a Death by Anthony Powell Pdf

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : Windmill Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786090848

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The Acceptance World by Anthony Powell Pdf

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226677214

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To Keep the Ball Rolling by Anthony Powell Pdf

Foreword by Ferdinand MountPart One- Infants of the SpringPart Two- Messengers of DayPart Three- Faces in My TimePart Four- The Strangers All Are Gone Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Autobiographical fiction, English
ISBN : 9780099472537

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Hearing Secret Harmonies by Anthony Powell Pdf

______________________________ 'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN A Dance to the Music of Time is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In this sixth volume, with Britain on the brink of war yet again, Nick Jenkins reflects back on his childhood growing up in the shadow of World War I. Wanting to follow in his father's footsteps, Nick sets his sights on becoming an officer in the Army, and asks his old school friend Widmerpool, who is gaining prominence in the business world, if he will help him. But reserves lists are quickly filling up with names, and it's not long until the threat of war is the one thing on everyone's mind. ______________________________ These titles are currently being reissued. There is a chance that you may receive the edition with the classic cover instead of the cover displayed here.

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Conflict of generations
ISBN : 9780099472438

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At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell Pdf

______________________________ 'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN A Dance to the Music of Time is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In this sixth volume, with Britain on the brink of war yet again, Nick Jenkins reflects back on his childhood growing up in the shadow of World War I. Wanting to follow in his father's footsteps, Nick sets his sights on becoming an officer in the Army, and asks his old school friend Widmerpool, who is gaining prominence in the business world, if he will help him. But reserves lists are quickly filling up with names, and it's not long until the threat of war is the one thing on everyone's mind. ______________________________ These titles are currently being reissued. There is a chance that you may receive the edition with the classic cover instead of the cover displayed here.

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0226677141

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A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell Pdf

"Movement 2. The rumble of distant events in Germany and Spain presages the storm of WWII. In England, even as the whirl of marriages and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures gathers speed, men and women find themselves on the brink of fateful choices.

Author : Aatif Rashid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1732868603

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Portrait of Sebastian Khan by Aatif Rashid Pdf

Sebastian Khan is 380 days away from the end of college. An art history major with a fondness for the Pre-Raphaelites and a dislike of long-term commitments (romantic and otherwise), Sebastian starts dating Fatima, who's determined to transition smoothly from campus life to a stable white-collar professional career. Sebastian's membership in Model United Nations, though, takes him to colleges across North America, foisting upon him all manner of temptations and testing his commitment to Fatima and his readiness for adulthood. Part satire of college life circa 2011 and part serious exploration of art's fundamental unreality, Portrait of Sebastian Khan is a humorous coming-of-age novel about a charismatic but emotionally stunted Muslim American Don Draper, who wins as many hearts as he breaks.

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:247210347

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The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell Pdf

Author : Anthony Powell
Publisher : P D
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1975-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hearing Secret Harmonies by Anthony Powell Pdf