A Dance to the Music of Time, 2nd Edition, 9780226677170
Paperback
In this third volume of ‘Dance to the Music of Time, ’ we again meet Widmerpool, doggedly rising in rank; Jenkins, shifted from one dismal army post to another; Stringham, heroically emerging from alcoholism; Templer, still on his eternal sexual quest. Here, too, we are introduced to Pamela Flitton,…

A Dance to the Music of Time, 2nd Edition

Third Movement

  • Paperback

    736 pages

  • Release Date

    31 May 1995

Summary

Read the novel that is #43 on the Modern Library’s 100 Best of the 20th Century list and the Guardian called “a comic masterpiece” and the New York Times praised as “immensely entertaining.”

A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark work of fiction, praised by readers and critics and other novelists throughout the 75 years since the first volume was published. Equal parts funny and heartbreaking, clever and moving, Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume pan…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780226677170
ISBN-10:0226677176
Author:Anthony Powell
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:University of Chicago Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:736
Edition:2nd
Release Date:31 May 1995
Weight:790g
Dimensions:40mm x 134mm x 205mm
Series:Dance to the Music of Time
What They're Saying

Critics Review

ONE OF THE 100 BEST NOVELS OF THE 20TH CENTURY– “The Modern Library”“A great chronicle… . Absolutely fascinating and the most important fiction since the war… . I would rather read Powell than any English novelist now writing.” –Kingsley Amis“The best modern novel since Ulysses.”–Clive James

About The Author

Anthony Powell

Anthony Powell (1905-2000) was one of the most critically acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century. His landmark twelve-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, was named to the Modern Library’s list of the top 100 novels of the twentieth century. His other novels include Afternoon Men, Venusberg, From a View to a Death, Agents and Patients, What’s Become of Waring?, O, How the Wheel Becomes It!, and The Fisher King, all published by the University of Chicago Press. A condensed version of his four-volume memoir, To Keep the Ball Rolling, is also available from the University of Chicago Press.

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