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Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Hearing Secret Harmonies
Author: Hearing Secret Harmonies
Author: Anthony PowellHearing Secret Harmonies
Author: Anthony PowellHearing Secret Harmonies
Author: Anthony PowelHearing Secret Harmonies (kindle)
Author: Anthony POWELLPublisher: CCV Digital
ISBN: 9781409037927
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Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Hearing Secret Harmonies
Author: Anthony PowellPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099472538
Category : Autobiographical fiction, English
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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______________________________ '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.
Hearing Secret Harmonies
Author: Anthony PowellPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226677451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
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 the final volume, Hearing Secret Harmonies, Nick and his contemporaries have begun to settle into the quieter stages of later life—even as the rise of the counterculture signals that a new generation is pushing its way to the front. The darkly fascinating young Scorpio Murtlock unexpectedly draws Widmerpool into his orbit, calling to mind occult and cultish doings from earlier decades; close friends leave the stage, never to be replaced in this life; and, drawing all the long, tangled strands together, Anthony Powell sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age. "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."--ChicagoTribune "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 YorkTimes "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
Hearing Secret Harmonies
Author: Anthony PowellPublisher: Popular Library
ISBN: 9780445201460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
During the turbulent sixties in Britain, writer Nick Jenkins becomes intrigued by the malignant young prophet Murtlock and his band of followers, who become entangled in decadent power plays and sinister rites
Understanding Anthony Powell
Author: Nicholas BirnsPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570035494
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
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.
Investigating Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time
Author: Isabelle JoyauPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134923284X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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