**A Dance to the Music of Time** โ his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. The novels follow Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool and others, as they negotiate the intellectual, cultur
Hearing Secret Harmonies
โ Scribed by Anthony Powell
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 158 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0226677451
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โฆ 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.
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_In the final volume,Hearing Secret Harmonies , Nick and his contemporaries have begun to settle into the quieter stages of later life--even as the rise of the counterculture signals that a new generation is pushing its way to the front. The darkly fascinating young Scorpio Murtlock unexpectedly draws Widmerpool into his orbit, calling to mind occult and cultish doings from earlier decades; close friends leave the stage, never to be replaced in this life; and, drawing all the long, tangled strands together, Anthony Powell sounds an unforgettable requiem for an...
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