Category Archives: Powell, Anthony
Classical associations
A Dance to the Music of Time, by Anthony Powell Twelve volumes, around 3,000 pages, those are daunting numbers. It’s not surprising that A Dance to the Music of Time isn’t as widely read as it should be. That said, … Continue reading
Deaths crayfishing are comparatively rare
Hearing Secret Harmonies, by Anthony Powell Hearing Secret Harmonies is the twelfth, and final, volume of Anthony Powell’s 3,000 page epic sequence A Dance to the Music of Time. It’s taken me over a year and a half to read … Continue reading
Being the temporary king is what matters
Temporary Kings, by Anthony Powell Temporary Kings is book eleven of A Dance to the Music of Time, it’s exceptional. It’s now the 1950s, Nick and his friends are at the peak of their careers, the new establishment, they’ve made … Continue reading
All my sad captains
Books do Furnish a Room is volume ten of Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time. The war is over, Britain is poor and London is filled with empty and ruined buildings. The main characters are now middle … Continue reading
Few subjects are more fascinating than other people’s sexual habits from the outside
The Military Philosophers is the ninth volume of Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time. Dance is broken into four seasons with three books in each, this then is the last book of Autumn. In the first six … Continue reading
Awfully chic to be killed
The Soldier’s Art is the eighth volume of Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time, midway through Autumn, deep now into war. Nick Jenkins has taken up a role as assistant to Widmerpool, now a Major serving at … Continue reading
Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already
The Valley of Bones is volume seven of Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time. It continues the overall seasonal theme of the series, here heading into autumn, and into war. As the novel opens, it is 1940 … Continue reading
Love means such different things to different people
The Kindly Ones is the sixth volume of Anthony Powell’s twelve volume epic, A Dance to the Music of Time. I have been working slowly through the whole sequence for the past few months, but recently had fallen out of … Continue reading
Do you remember when we went on the ghost railway – when you dash toward closed doors and tear down hill towards a body across the line?
Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant is the fifth volume of Anthony Powell’s epic twelve volume masterpiece A Dance to the Music of Time. I’ve previously blogged about Dance, http://pechorinjournal.blogspot.com/2008/07/dance-to-music-of-time-summer.html, and it’s worth reading that entry before this one or what I write … Continue reading
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A Dance to the Music of Time: Summer
Originally posted 17 July 2008, thankfully. A Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve volume epic work by Anthony Powell, whether you take it as twelve distinct novels or one large novel in twelve volumes is a matter … Continue reading
