Anthony Powell
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| Title | : | A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time #4-6) |
| Author | : | Anthony Powell |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 722 pages |
| Published | : | June 15th 1995 by University of Chicago Press (first published 1964) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. European Literature. British Literature |
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Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. In the background of this second volume of A Dance to the Music of Time, the rumble of distant events in Germany and Spain presages the storm of World War II. 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. Includes these novels: At Lady Molly's Casanova's Chinese Restaurant The Kindly OnesPoint Books Toward A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time #4-6)
| Original Title: | A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement |
| ISBN: | 0226677168 (ISBN13: 9780226677163) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | A Dance to the Music of Time #4-6 |
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Ratings: 4.3 From 1371 Users | 97 ReviewsDiscuss About Books A Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time #4-6)
This is an incredible achievement by the author. The central character (Nick Jenkins) is the observer and our guide to this world of middle class and upper class Brits from the pre-World War II period and (apparently) all the way to the 1960s by the last volume. A 12-volume set, I have finally hit the halfway mark. According to the audio extra at the end of this section (movement) states that there are actually over 300 (!!) characters in this series. One wonders how he kept track of all hisSince listening to the the First Movement of A Dance to the Music of Time a couple of months ago, I've been looking forward to returning to Nick Jenkins' world in London between the wars. I wasn't disappointed. In this Movement, Powell concentrates on relationships. He portrays relationships between siblings, marriages, love affairs, friendships: relationships that last and relationships that fracture. What with the lives of all the characters from the First Movement to catch up with, lots of
Novels 4-6 of Powell's overall twelveAt Lady Molly's -- 3/5The growing pains of adulthood are over, and the characters have settled into life a bit more comfortably. Templer and Stringham have been reduced to occasional cameos and background figures; Members and Quiggin have taken their respective places as sidekicks. And Widmerpool has evolved in Jenkins' thematic counterpoint -- fate vs. will.This one started out sloooooooowly. Drawing room discussions about the grumblings of the growing
Summer is a season when the nature is at its prime, it is a time of ripening fruitsThe main characters of the book are at their prime too and they continue to look for the better place in the world and search for the truer loveLove is at once always absurd and never absurd; the more grotesque its form, the more love itself confers a certain dignity on the circumstances of those it torments.We dont choose our love, love chooses us.Anthony Powell is an attentive onlooker and a subtle observer and
As befits the turbulent and increasingly ominous decade in which this sequence of novels is set (the 1930's), the "second movement" of Dance to the Music of Time has darker, more complex shadings than the first. The volume begins with Nick Jenkins's recollection of childhood events, weird and interesting in themselves, which turn out to precede the beginning of World War I; it ends with the onset of World War II. In between there are marriages, miscarriages, divorces, deaths; love affairs and
The 6th book, The Kindly Ones, is quite an improvement over the 5 that came before. The familys parlormaid appears naked in the narrator Nick Jenkins familys dining room during a luncheon for family friends, a General and his wife, on the day the news breaks that the Austrian Archduke has been assassinated on the streets in Bosnia, setting off WW1. In real time, England prepares fitfully for looming WW2. Jenkins has published several novels, but theres little or nothing about writing them or
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