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Anthony Powell's celebrated early novel turns to English rural society to caricature a socially aspiring artist and his disastrous ambition to marry well.
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ANTHONY POWELL was born in 1905. After working in publishing and as a scriptwriter, he began to write for the Daily Telegraph in the mid-1930s. He served in the army during World War II and subsequently became the fiction reviewer on the TLS. Next came five years as literary editor of Punch. He was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1988. In addition to the twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time, Anthony Powell was the author of seven other novels, and four volumes of memoirs, To Keep the Ball Rolling. He died in March 2000.
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"an old favourite reissued this year in paperback, Anthony Powell's uproarious From a View to Death... still as relevant and funny as the day it came out over 70 years ago" * ilary Spurling, Spectator `Books of the year' *
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- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 178475059X
- ISBN 13 9781784750596
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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