From a View to a Death - Couverture souple

Powell, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0749312033 ISBN 13 : 9780749312039

Editeur : Mandarin, 1992

Synopsis

This novel, first published in 1933, is reissued simultaneously with two others by Anthony Powell, "Afternoon Men" and "What's Become of Waring?". Its characters are perennial in the classical English comedy of country life.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

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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Revue de presse

"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’)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mandarin
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0749312033
• ISBN 13: 9780749312039
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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