Invitation To The Dance

by HilarySpurling (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $14.20

  A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music 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' Anthony Powell

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $11.35

  A complete guide to Anthony Powell's novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time . The main part of the text comprises a who's who of characters, fictional and factual, from Lord Aberavon to Widmerpool. Three further indexes, with full page references and extensive quotations from the novels, cover the books, paintings and places visited or mentioned in the sequence, and a synopsis of events clarifies various tricky points of chronology.