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A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.
The novels follow Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool and others, as they negotiate the intellectual, cultural and social hurdles that stand between them and the “Acceptance World.”
The novels follow Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool and others, as they negotiate the intellectual, cultural and social hurdles that stand between them and the “Acceptance World.”
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Anthony Powell was born in 1905. He served in the army during World War II. He is the author of seven other novels, and four volumes of memoirs, To Keep the Ball Rolling.
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“I think it is now becoming clear that A Dance to the Music of Time is going to become the greatest modern novel since Ulysses.”
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“I would rather read Mr Powell than any English novelist now writing.”
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- PublisherFarrar, Straus and Cudahy
- Publication date1955
- ISBN 10 043459900X
- ISBN 13 9780434599004
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages214
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The Acceptance World (UK HB in Broom Lynne jacket)
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(1968)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. UK hardback reprint from 1968 in the Broom-Lynne jacket. The book is VG overall with some indentations to surface at bottom of page block and previous owner name and date to ffep. The jacket is VG, unclipped and unfaded with a nick to head of spine. Seller Inventory # ABE-1683298623829
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Book Description Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Given as the fifth impression from 1972 of this novel first published in 1955. Boards have some light rubbing at the edges and the book has a spine lean. Lettering on spine very bright. Page edges slightly browned with some scattered spotting. Previous owner's book plate to the front free endpaper which also has a little surface marking and a small tear in the top edge which has been stuck to the top of the pastedown during the production process - the rear free endpaper has a similar but larger small surface tear. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket has been price-clipped and repriced by the publisher and has some edge rubbing and slight fading to the spine. The rear panel has quite a bit of browning along the right edge and some brown spotting in places over the surface. Jacket design by James Broom-Lynne. Seller Inventory # 016196
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Book Description Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Broom-Lynne, James (illustrator). Seventh Impression. Seventh impression from 1977 of this novel first published in 1955. This edition has the original boards design - red with the black title panel on the spine with gilt lettering but the book is about 1cm narrower than the original edition and earlier reprints. Boards have light rubbing at the edges. The gilt lettering on the spine is very bright. Very slight dustiness to the top edges of the pages. Previous owner's book plate to the front pastedown but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has a little fading to the spine and slight browning around the edges of the rear panel. The front flap has a publishers price label stuck to the bottom corner. Jacket design by James Broom-Lynne. Seller Inventory # 016467
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