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Anthony Dymoke Powell CH CBE (/ ˈ p oʊ əl / 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.
The cycle was adapted as a four-part TV series A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell and Hugh Whitemore for Channel 4 in 1997, directed by Christopher Morahan and Alvin Rakoff. [ citation needed ]
CharacterDetailsHistorical Inspirations [12]Nick JenkinsNarratorA cypher, everyman; Powell himselfIsobel TollandOne of the Tolland sisters, whom Jenkins ...Powell's wife Lady Violet Pakenham, third ...A mediocre student whose rise seems ...Powell confirmed character inspired by ...Charles StringhamSchoolfriend of Nick's. A romantic.Drawn from Hubert Duggan, whose glamorous ...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 · About Anthony Powell: 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...
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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.
Nov 19, 2018 · By the time of his death in 2000, Anthony Powell’s era had slipped past. His Oxbridge courtliness had come to seem, rather than dignified, a bit pompous.
