Question Of Upbringing

Powell, Anthony

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‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ chronicles the lives of over 300 characters, throughout the 20th century. The first novel in the sequence follows Nicolas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool and others as they negotiate the intellectual, cultural and social hurdles which stand between them and the ‘Acceptance World’.

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Publish Date: 06/01/2005

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

‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers.

In this first volume, Nick Jenkins is introduced to the ebbs and flows of life at boarding school in the 1920s, spent in the company of his friends: Peter Templer, Charles Stringham, and Kenneth Widmerpool.

Though their days are filled with visits from relatives and boyish pranks, usually at the expense of their housemaster Le Bas, a disastrous trip in Templer’s car threatens their new friendship. As the school year comes to a close, the young men are faced with the prospects of adulthood, and with finding their place in the world.

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Weight 219 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 17 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

229

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

823.912 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K