At Lady Molly's
β Scribed by Anthony Powell
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 137 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0226677370
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β¦ Synopsis
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published--as twelve individual novels--but with a twenty-first-century twist: they're available only as e-books.
As the fourth book, At Lady Molly's (1957), opens, the heady pleasures of the 1920s have begun to give way to the austerity and worries of the 1930s. Even so, the whirl of London life continues: friends commit to causes and to spouses, confess adulteries, and fall victim to dissipation and disillusion. As Nick moves ever more comfortably in the worlds of art, culture, and society, Powell's palette broadens: old friends make appearances, but new ones take places on the stage as well--including Isobel Tolland, whom Nick knows at first sight he's destined to marry.
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Anthony Powellβs universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally publishedβas twelve individual novelsβbut with a twen