A Dance to the Music of Time: Summer
- ISBN-10
- 0099416875
- ISBN-13
- 9780099416876
- Series
- A Dance to the Music of Time
- Category
- Ambition
- Pages
- 727
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Anthony Powell
Description
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
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- 1995-06-15
- 746 pages
- Paperback
- University of Chicago Press
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- 1995-05-31
- 732 pages
- Paperback
- University of Chicago Press
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- 1995-05-31
- 734 pages
- Paperback
- University of Chicago Press
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