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Jul 19, 2010 · A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME is a wryly comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England spanning almost a century, from the early 20s to modern times. Friendship, adultery, ambition and failure are set against the backdrop of London's social, political and artistic life.
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A Dance to the Music of Time is a 12-volume roman-fleuve by English writer Anthony Powell, published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim. The story is an often comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century. The books were inspired by the painting of ...
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 ...Aug 28, 2007 · A Dance to the Music of Time is a sumptuous, leisurely portrait of a time in Britain's history (from the 1920s to the '60s) that epitomizes the pinnacle of romance. At the center of this Dance is Nicholas Jenkins, the narrator of the tales of intrigue, infidelity, queer friendships, and ruthless ambition that intersect throughout the series.
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James Purefoy stars, along with several British household names, in this television adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12 novels. The story revolves around friendship, murder, adultery, ambition and failure and is set against a backdrop of social, political and artistic life during the pivotal years of 20th Century England.
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Dec 1, 2007 · A Dance to the Music of Time is immense and many-sided, like life itself, and there is surely no other author of recent times who so brilliantly conveys the sense of life as actually lived – inconsequential and directionless at the time, its underlying pattern emerging only in retrospect. Powell gives us the sense that we are reading something wider and less formed than a novelist’s ...
Anthony Powell wrote a series of twelve novels, with the overall title of Dance to the Music of Time, spanning the period before and after the second world war. I recently read the wonderful biography of him by Hilary Spurling, and realised the Dance is heavily based on his own life.
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Having just listened to over 80 hours of the unabridged audio version of the 12 books that comprise the Dance to the Music of Time, I am very impressed by this filmed adaptation. The books have minor characters, tangential stories and quite a bit of philosophising that have been eliminated without losing the the essence of the books and the screen-writer has created a coherent story with ...
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