The Kindly Ones: A Dance to the Music of Time Volume 6 - Couverture souple

Powell, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099472457 ISBN 13 : 9780099472452

Editeur : Arrow, 2005

Synopsis

‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ Guardian

‘As magnificently comic as anything in the series.’ Sunday Times

‘A literary gem.’ Claire Messud

‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Now in the first volume’s 75th anniversary year, this twelve-volume series is ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers.

In this sixth volume, with Britain once again on the brink of war, Nick Jenkins reflects back on his childhood growing up in the shadow of the World War I.

Wanting to follow in his father’s footsteps, Nick sets his sights on becoming an officer in the British Army and asks his old school friend, Widmerpool, who is gaining prominence in the business world, for help. Yet, with reserves lists quickly filling up, it’s not long until the threat of war is the only thing on everyone’s mind.

Praise for 'A Dance to the Music of Time’
‘A world as rich as Joyce's on the one hand and P. G. Wodehouse’s on the other.’ Guardian
‘One of the great novel-sequences in English Literature.’ William Boyd
‘One of the greatest pleasures of my reading life.’ Michael Palin
‘An epic, elegant masterpiece.’ Lauren Groff
‘A joyous experience.’ Roddy Doyle
‘An intricately wrought work of art.’ John Banville
‘The finest long comic novel that England has produced.’ Anthony Burgess
‘Mr Powell’s imagination is inexhaustible.’ Evelyn Waugh
‘One of English fiction’s few twentieth-century masterpieces.’ London Review of Books
‘There is no other novelist whose work gives so much or such consistent pleasure.’ Times Literary Supplement

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anthony Powell was an only child, born in 1905. As a young man he worked for a crumbling publishing business whilst trying to find time to write novels. He moved in a bohemian world of struggling writers and artists, which was to provide the raw material for much of his fiction. During the Second World War he served in Military Intelligence Liaison. He subsequently became a fiction reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement and for five years he was the literary editor of the now-defunct magazine Punch. Meanwhile he continued to work on the twelve-novel sequence ‘A Dance to the Music of Time’. He was the author of seven other novels, and four volumes of memoirs. His many reviews for the Daily Telegraph are also published in collected volumes. Anthony Powell died in March 2000.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arrow
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099472457
• ISBN 13: 9780099472452
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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