Invitation To The Dance

Invitation To The Dance
ISBN-10
1446428893
ISBN-13
9781446428894
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
2011-03-01
Publisher
Random House
Author
Hilary Spurling

Description

A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary, Invitation to the Dance contains extensive Character, Book, Painting and Place indices, creating a magnificent database of Powell's imagination and England's cultural landscape. This is a masterpiece of 'extreme ingenuity' detailing over four hundred characters and one million words of Powell's lively fifty-year dance of fiction and fact. 'Hilary Spurling's exhaustive analysis of the novel's characters supplies a master-key for the reader of Anthony Powell.

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