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Anthony Dymoke Powell CH CBE ( / ˈpoʊəl / POH-əl; [1] 21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975. It is on the list of longest novels in English.
Powell's official biographer, Hilary Spurling, has published Invitation to the Dance – a Handbook to Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time. This annotates, in dictionary form, the characters, events, art, music, and other references.
CharacterDetailsNick JenkinsNarratorIsobel TollandOne of the Tolland sisters, whom Jenkins ...A mediocre student whose rise seems ...Charles StringhamSchoolfriend of Nick's. A romantic.Nov 5, 2018 · Hilary Spurling’s new biography, “Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time” (Knopf), is a fond portrayal of the man sometimes called “the English Proust.”
Mar 28, 2000 · People best know British writer Anthony Dymoke Powell for A Dance to the Music of Time , a cycle of 12 satirical novels from 1951 to 1975. This Englishman published his volumes of work.
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Anthony Powell (born December 21, 1905, London, England—died March 28, 2000, near Frome, Somerset) was an English novelist, best known for his autobiographical and satiric 12-volume series of novels, A Dance to the Music of Time.
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The Anthony Powell Society is a charity made up of members across the world particularly in the UK and North America who wish to promote interest in Powell and his work. Powell had a wide range of friends from George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh to V.S. Naipaul, Harold Pinter and Philip Larkin.
A candid and revealing conversation with the author of A Dance to the Music of Time, a twelve-volume novel about the social circles of London. Powell discusses his early works, his literary influences, his war experiences, and his views on writing and life.
