The Military Philosophers: A Dance to the Music of Time Volume 9

Powell, Anthony

ISBN 10: 0099472481 / ISBN 13: 9780099472483

Edité par Arrow, 2005

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• Titre: The Military Philosophers: A Dance to the Music of Time Volume 9
• Éditeur: Arrow
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0099472481
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780099472483
• Reliure: paperback
• Illustrateur: Mark Boxer (Cover Art)
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Poids: 230 grammes

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Synopsis

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

‘Comic in the most honoured sense ... as serious as it is funny.’ Spectator

‘Elegant, funny and moving.’ Guardian

‘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 ninth volume, Nick Jenkins, now a Second World War captain, finds himself working in military liaison. When he receives the tragic news of the death of an old friend, Nick is confronted with the ever-present dichotomy between the way things are and the way things used to be.

Despite Widmerpool news of finding himself yet again engaged, this time to the notorious Pamela Flitton, the war’s toll is mounting and Nick, weary of life in uniform like the rest of his compatriots, is looking ahead to peacetime.

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

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.