Anthony Powell’s intention was to record an epoch and a society that was disappearing even as he wrote about it.
Anthony Dymoke Powell CH CBE was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975. Powell's major work has remained in print continuously and has been the subject of TV and radio dramatisations. Wikipedia
Born: December 21, 1905, Westminster, United Kingdom
Died: March 28, 2000, Frome, United Kingdom
Spouse: Violet Powell (m. 1934–2000)
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early
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Imprint: Penguin
Published: 04/10/2018
ISBN: 9780141030791
Length: 528 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 129mm
Weight: 428g
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Imprint: Penguin
Published: 04/10/2018
ISBN: 9780141030791
Length: 528 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 32mm x 129mm
Weight: 428g
RRP: £9.99
Anthony Powell
Hilary Spurling
Hardback
Paperback
Ebook
View more editions
BUY FROM
BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator,Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times
'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year
'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books
'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Prospect