La Danse destempsSéries
Ce vaste roman épique retrace les vies et les fortunes de la haute société britannique de la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale jusqu'aux années 1960. Raconte avec l'esprit et la retenue typiquement britanniques, il offre une vision panoramique des changements sociaux, des ambitions personnelles et des événements tumultueux du XXe siècle. La série est une étude magistrale d'un milieu spécifique, explorant ses coutumes particulières, ses relations évolutives et le passage du temps. Elle offre un aperçu incomparable et perspicace au cœur d'une société et des individus qui naviguent ses courants complexes.
Ordre de lecture recommandé
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A Buyer's Market
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
The second novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. Discover the extraordinary life of Anthony Powell - captured by acclaimed biographer Hilary Spurling in Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time - available now in hardback and ebook from Hamish Hamilton.
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Set in the Great Depression of 1931-32. The Acceptance World invites us once again to join Nicholas Jenkins and his friends in their dance to the music of time.
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The fourth novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time
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Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
The fifth novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. Discover the extraordinary life of Anthony Powell - captured by acclaimed biographer Hilary Spurling in Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time - available now in hardback and ebook from Hamish Hamilton.
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The Valley Of Bones
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
The seventh novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. Discover the extraordinary life of Anthony Powell - captured by acclaimed biographer Hilary Spurling in Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time - available now in hardback and ebook from Hamish Hamilton.
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Soldier's Art
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
The eighth novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. Discover the extraordinary life of Anthony Powell - captured by acclaimed biographer Hilary Spurling in Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time - available now in hardback and ebook from Hamish Hamilton.
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The Military Philosophers
- 240pages
- 9 heures de lecture
The ninth novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. Discover the extraordinary life of Anthony Powell - captured by acclaimed biographer Hilary Spurling in Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time - available now in hardback and ebook from Hamish Hamilton.
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Book 10 in A Dance to the Music of Time begins: "Returning to the University at forty, one immediately recaptured all the crushing melancholy of the undergraduate condition." Anthony Powell's 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, cultural and social hurdles that stand between them and the “Acceptance World.”
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Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 3
- 736pages
- 26 heures de lecture
Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth- century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations.
A Dance to the Music of Time: Winter. Vol.1
- 816pages
- 29 heures de lecture
Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. Volume 4 contains the last three novels in the sequence: Books do Furnish a Room; Temporary Kings; Hearing Secret Harmonies.
A Dance to the Music of Time
- 736pages
- 26 heures de lecture
Powell's monumental 12-part series traces the lives of a wide variety of characters in London from World War I until the 1960s.
A Dance to the Music of Time: Summer. Vol.2
- 736pages
- 26 heures de lecture
Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. Volume 2 contains the second three novels in the sequence: At Lady Molly's; Casanova's Chinese Restaurant; The Kindly Ones
A Dance to the Music of Time: Spring. Vol.1
- 725pages
- 26 heures de lecture
A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer's Market, The Acceptance World Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. These first three novels in the sequence follow Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool and others, as they negotiate the intellectual, cultural and social hurdles which stand between them and the 'Acceptance World'.
