A Dance to the Music of Time, Volume 1: Spring
Author: Anthony Powell
A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer’s Market, The Acceptance WorldAnthony Powell’s brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. These first three novels in the sequence foll….Read More
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