<![CDATA[A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement]]>

false <![CDATA[A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166706811m/16113.jpg 16113 9 <div>Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses. Four very different young men on the threshold of manhood dominate this opening volume of A Dance to the Music of Time. The narrator, Jenkins--a budding writer--shares a room with Templer, already a passionate womanizer, and Stringham, aristocratic and reckless. Widermerpool, as hopelessly awkward as he is intensely ambitious, lurks on the periphery of their world. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, these four gain their initiations into sex, society, business, and art. Considered a masterpiece of modern fiction, Powell's epic creates a rich parorama of life in England between the wars. Includes these novels: A Question of Upbringing A Buyer's Market The Acceptance World "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."--Chicago Tribune "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 York Times "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 </div> 17890 1955 A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement total:226|5:101|4:71|3:33|2:13|1:8| 226 922 686 50 5 16 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1987 Mon Nov 17 14:10:12 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 10:41:17 -0800 2009 Dance to the Music of Time, which is pretty much my favorite book ever, but it's hard to know where to start. If you've read it, you know it's a masterpiece, and anything I say is irrelevant. If you haven't read it, I'm faced with the daunting task...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 21 12:11:14 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 10:54:13 -0700 2008
A Question of Upbringing -- 4 out of 5 stars.
This first novel, of the overall twelve novels involved, comes across as little more than a high(er)-brow version of A Seperate Peace. And to me, that's not a bad thing. It's quite r...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Wed Aug 08 11:56:45 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 08 12:04:51 -0700 2007
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This is ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Mon Sep 28 18:42:33 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 18:46:29 -0700 2009 2 This is the first book from the "First Movement" of A Dance to the Music of Time -- 11 more to go. Actually it was a nice, pleasant read which was designed to give the initial background introduction to the 4 characters we will follow through the 12 books. Alt...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 08:22:59 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 08:22:59 -0800 2009
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Like that, only it took two and a half novels. I had to start book 2 two times, but I sa...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 12:46:03 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 22:11:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 15 04:11:18 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 04:19:30 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 15:32:03 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 22:17:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 14 08:19:56 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 13:21:41 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 08:19:56 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1975 Sat Oct 27 02:39:50 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 27 02:52:00 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jun 24 08:27:19 -0700 2009 Thu Jan 22 15:29:11 -0800 2009 Wed Jun 24 08:27:19 -0700 2009 A Dance to the Music of Time is as good as Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Many don't. Some consider this 12-volume, 3,000 page novel a masterpiece. Some think it an overly long depiction of the worse of English society. I shall fine out and let you know. One do...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 31 05:48:32 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 05:52:50 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Nov 20 05:39:10 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 05:42:51 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=16113