Anthony Powell
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A Dance To The Music of Time (ALL 1st printings, 12-volume-set)
- £4,000.00
- Anthony 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. Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time is…
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A Writer’s Notebook
- £50.00
- Powell's notebook, which he kept for 40 years, gives an insight into the workings of a writer's mind as he recorded observations, opinions and aphorisms, as well as ideas for books and book titles.
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Afternoon Men
- £130.00
- Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange drivers of human behavior. More explorations of relationships and vanity…
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Agents and Patients
- £45.00
- Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for FreudÑsuch are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high society between…
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Agents and Patients
- £60.00
- Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for FreudÑsuch are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high society between…
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Anthony Powell: A Bibliography (Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers)
- £25.00
- A full descriptive bibliography covering books and periodicals, as well as a brief foreword by Powell himself.
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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
- £35.00
- A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year / 'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books / 'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Prospect / From the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of…
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At Lady Molly’s [A Dance to the Music of Time 4]
- £10.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
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Books Do Furnish A Room
- £60.00
- The 10th volume in Dance to the Music of Time. Set two or three years after the end of the War, with Widmerpool now a Labour MP.
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Books do Furnish a Room
- £70.00
- The 10th volume in Dance to the Music of Time. Set two or three years after the end of the War, with Widmerpool now a Labour MP.
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Books do Furnish a Room [Dance to the Music of Time 10]
- £60.00
- The 10th volume in Dance to the Music of Time. Set two or three years after the end of the War, with Widmerpool now a Labour MP.
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Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant [Dance to the Music of Time 5]
- £60.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance…
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Faces in my Time (Vol 3 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £25.00
- The third volume of Powell's memoirs covering 1934-1951
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Faces in my Time (Vol 3 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £8.00
- The third volume of Powell's memoirs covering 1934-1951
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From a View to a Death
- £25.00
- Anthony Powell's celebrated early novel (from 1933) turns to English rural society to caricature a socially aspiring artist and his disastrous ambition to marry well.
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From a View to a Death
- £13.00
- From a View to a Death takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins.
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £35.00
- Anthony PowellÕs A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of PowellÕs imagination and EnglandÕs cultural landscape.
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £30.00
- Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of Powell’s imagination and England’s cultural landscape.
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Hearing Secret Harmonies
- £35.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, Nick’s old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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Hearing Secret Harmonies
- £40.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, Nick’s old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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Hearing Secret Harmonies [A Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £50.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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Hearing Secret Harmonies [A Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £60.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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Hearing Secret Harmonies [Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £50.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
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Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £15.00
- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
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Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £25.00
- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
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Journals (Vol. I): 1982-1986
- £40.00
- "Stuck" on a novel in the mid-80s, Anthony Powell kept a journal. It gives an insight into the life of a respected writer and contains portraits of luminaries from the literary world, including Osbert Lancaster, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Lord Longford and others.
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Journals (Vol. II): 1987-1989
- £25.00
- ese journals, started in 1982 when Powell had become 'stuck' on a novel, became the place where he could most happily exercise his extraordinarily acute and often witty powers of observation and record his memories of times and writers past. This, the second volume of the journals sees the writer…
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Journals (Vol. III): 1990-1992
- £20.00
- A third volume of Powell's journals which contains his observations, and his accounts of family occasions and famous visitors.
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Memoirs I: Messengers of Day
- £30.00
- Volume II of Powell's memoirs
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Messengers of Day (Vol 2 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £18.00
- The second volume of Powell's memoirs covering 1926-1934, includes pen portraits of several friends, including George Orwell.
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Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989
- £35.00
- A collection of Anthony Powell's best critical writing over a period of four decades, drawn from his regular reviews for the "Daily Telegraph", occasional humorous pieces for "Punch" and more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers. The first section on British writers looks at John Aubrey, Rudyard…
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Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989
- £60.00
- A collection of Anthony Powell's best critical writing over a period of four decades, drawn from his regular reviews for the "Daily Telegraph", occasional humorous pieces for "Punch" and more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers. The first section on British writers looks at John Aubrey, Rudyard…
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O, How the Wheel Becomes It!
- £25.00
- G. F. H. Shadbold, a lifelong poseur and literary manqu lives, for the most part, in fear of discovery. A friend, Cedric Winterwade, whom he evidently seduced in his college days, writes a novel almost as insignificant and badly written as Shadbold's own literary output. As time passes, however, and…
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Temporary Kings (A Dance to the Music of Time 11)
- £20.00
- In the eleventh volume in Dance to the Music of Time, Nick Jenkins, persuaded by his old friend Mark Members, attends a literary conference in Venice. Meanwhile, old school pal Widmerpool continues to climb the ranks, this time as a Life Peer. But his position in power is under threat…
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Temporary Kings [Dance to the Music of Time 11]
- £50.00
- In the eleventh volume in Dance to the Music of Time, Nick Jenkins, persuaded by his old friend Mark Members, attends a literary conference in Venice. Meanwhile, old school pal Widmerpool continues to climb the ranks, this time as a Life Peer. But his position in power is under threat…
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The Album of Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time
- £30.00
- The perfect companion alongside Hilary Spurling's Handbook and of course the 12-volume novel sequence. Edited by Violet Powell, preface by Anthony Powell, introduction by John Bayley. With 224 period drawings, paintings and photographs.
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The Fisher King
- £20.00
- Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious…
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The Fisher King
- £25.00
- Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious…
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The Fisher King
- £20.00
- Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious…
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The Fisher King
- £20.00
- Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious…
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The Kindly Ones
- £30.00
- A Dance to the Music of Time (no 6.) With Britain on the brink of war yet again, Nick Jenkins reflects back on his childhood growing up in the shadow of World War I. Wanting to follow in his father’s footsteps, Nick sets his sights on becoming an officer in…
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The Kindly Ones [Dance to the Music of Time 6]
- £60.00
- In this sixth volume, with Britain on the brink of war yet again, Nick Jenkins reflects back on his childhood growing up in the shadow of World War I. Wanting to follow in his fatherÕs footsteps, Nick sets his sights on becoming an officer in the Army, and asks his…
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The Military Philosophers [A Dance to the Music of Time 9]
- £40.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
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The Soldier’s Art [A Dance to the Music of Time 8]
- £50.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
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The Soldier’s Art [Dance to the Music of Time 8]
- £60.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
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The Strangers All Are Gone (Vol 4 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £30.00
- The fourth and final volume of Powell's memoirs opens in 1952 and includes his term as Literary Editor of "Punch," completion of the monumental "A Dance to the Music of Time," and a gallery of pointed, perceptive portraits of Powell's contemporaries.
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The Valley of Bones
- £6.00
- The 7th volume in Dance to the Music of Time in which Nicholas Jenkins is a 2nd Lieut in an infantry regiment, seeing at close quarters the reality and absurdities of army life.
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The Valley of Bones [Dance to the Music of Time 7]
- £60.00
- The 7th volume in Dance to the Music of Time in which Nicholas Jenkins is a 2nd Lieut in an infantry regiment, seeing at close quarters the reality and absurdities of army life.
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To Keep The Ball Rolling: The Memoirs Of Anthony Powell (4-volume set)
- £175.00
- After completing his 12-volume masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, Powell began to publish his memoirs, in 4 volumes: Infants In Spring ISBN 0434599220, Messengers Of Day ISBN 0434599239, Faces In My Time ISBN 0434599247. The Strangers All Are Gone ISBN 0434599417.
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Under Review: Writings on Writers 1946-1990
- £35.00
- This selection from 40 years of reviews and articles by one of Britain's greatest living novelists falls into three sections: on fin-de-siecle figures such as Wilde and Beardsley, on early 20th century figures including members of the Bloomsbury circle, and on European writers such as Tolstoy, Stendhal and Flaubert.
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Venusberg
- £30.00
- Powell's early novel translated by Bruno Fonzi
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Venusberg
- £20.00
- An English journalist encounters dangerous hijinks on the Baltic Sea in this satirical novel by the author of A Dance to the Music of Time. Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would define…
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Venusberg + Agents & Patients
- £25.00
- Two early novels in one volume
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What’s Become of Waring
- £15.00
- In WhatÕs Become of Waring, Powell lampoons a world with which he was intimately acquainted: the inner workings of a small London publisher. But even as Powell eviscerates the publishersÕ less than scrupulous plotting in his tale of wild coincidences, mistaken identity, and romance, he never strays to the far…
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What’s Become Of Waring
- £30.00
- The hugely successful early novel which established Anthony Powell as a leading voice in English comic fiction, What's Become of Waring is the teasing and wittily contrived story about a famous but elsuive travel author who seems to have some very good reasons for concealing his life behind a screen…
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A Dance To The Music of Time (ALL 1st printings, 12-volume-set)
- £4,000.00
- Anthony 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. Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time is…
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A Writer’s Notebook
- £50.00
- Powell's notebook, which he kept for 40 years, gives an insight into the workings of a writer's mind as he recorded observations, opinions and aphorisms, as well as ideas for books and book titles.
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Afternoon Men
- £130.00
- Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would become a substantial part of his oeuvre: pride, greed, and the strange drivers of human behavior. More explorations of relationships and vanity…
- Add to basket
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Agents and Patients
- £45.00
- Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for FreudÑsuch are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high society between…
- Add to basket
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Agents and Patients
- £60.00
- Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for FreudÑsuch are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds his comedies on the foibles of British high society between…
- Add to basket
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Anthony Powell: A Bibliography (Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers)
- £25.00
- A full descriptive bibliography covering books and periodicals, as well as a brief foreword by Powell himself.
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Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
- £35.00
- A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year / 'One of our generation's greatest biographers' London Review of Books / 'Witty, spirited, richly crowded with incident and character - a joy to read' Prospect / From the author of the prize-winning Matisse The Master comes an essential biography of…
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At Lady Molly’s [A Dance to the Music of Time 4]
- £10.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
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Books Do Furnish A Room
- £60.00
- The 10th volume in Dance to the Music of Time. Set two or three years after the end of the War, with Widmerpool now a Labour MP.
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Books do Furnish a Room
- £70.00
- The 10th volume in Dance to the Music of Time. Set two or three years after the end of the War, with Widmerpool now a Labour MP.
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Books do Furnish a Room [Dance to the Music of Time 10]
- £60.00
- The 10th volume in Dance to the Music of Time. Set two or three years after the end of the War, with Widmerpool now a Labour MP.
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Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant [Dance to the Music of Time 5]
- £60.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Reissued now in this definitive edition, it stands ready to delight and entrance…
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Faces in my Time (Vol 3 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £25.00
- The third volume of Powell's memoirs covering 1934-1951
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Faces in my Time (Vol 3 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £8.00
- The third volume of Powell's memoirs covering 1934-1951
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From a View to a Death
- £25.00
- Anthony Powell's celebrated early novel (from 1933) turns to English rural society to caricature a socially aspiring artist and his disastrous ambition to marry well.
- Add to basket
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From a View to a Death
- £13.00
- From a View to a Death takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins.
- Add to basket
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £35.00
- Anthony PowellÕs A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of PowellÕs imagination and EnglandÕs cultural landscape.
- Add to basket
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Handbook to Anthony Powell’s Music of Time
- £30.00
- Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time is a landmark of twentieth-century writing. Hilary Spurling has written an invaluable companion to the 12-volume masterpiece, creating a magnificent database of Powell’s imagination and England’s cultural landscape.
- Add to basket
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Hearing Secret Harmonies
- £35.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, Nick’s old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
- Add to basket
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Hearing Secret Harmonies
- £40.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, Nick’s old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
- Add to basket
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Hearing Secret Harmonies [A Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £50.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
- Add to basket
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Hearing Secret Harmonies [A Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £60.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
- Add to basket
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Hearing Secret Harmonies [Dance to the Music of Time 12]
- £50.00
- Final volume in Dance to the Music of Time series. The sixties are in full swing and Nick Jenkins and his wife Isobel are living out their later years in the countryside. Not content with a quiet retirement, NickÕs old school friend Widmerpool is on the rise again and is…
- Add to basket
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Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £15.00
- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
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Infants of the Spring (Vol 1 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £25.00
- The first volume of Powell's memoirs covering his childhood, schooling at Eton and years at Oxford as an undergraduate.
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Journals (Vol. I): 1982-1986
- £40.00
- "Stuck" on a novel in the mid-80s, Anthony Powell kept a journal. It gives an insight into the life of a respected writer and contains portraits of luminaries from the literary world, including Osbert Lancaster, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Lord Longford and others.
- Add to basket
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Journals (Vol. II): 1987-1989
- £25.00
- ese journals, started in 1982 when Powell had become 'stuck' on a novel, became the place where he could most happily exercise his extraordinarily acute and often witty powers of observation and record his memories of times and writers past. This, the second volume of the journals sees the writer…
- Add to basket
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Journals (Vol. III): 1990-1992
- £20.00
- A third volume of Powell's journals which contains his observations, and his accounts of family occasions and famous visitors.
- Add to basket
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Memoirs I: Messengers of Day
- £30.00
- Volume II of Powell's memoirs
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Messengers of Day (Vol 2 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £18.00
- The second volume of Powell's memoirs covering 1926-1934, includes pen portraits of several friends, including George Orwell.
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Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989
- £35.00
- A collection of Anthony Powell's best critical writing over a period of four decades, drawn from his regular reviews for the "Daily Telegraph", occasional humorous pieces for "Punch" and more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers. The first section on British writers looks at John Aubrey, Rudyard…
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Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989
- £60.00
- A collection of Anthony Powell's best critical writing over a period of four decades, drawn from his regular reviews for the "Daily Telegraph", occasional humorous pieces for "Punch" and more sustained pieces of critical and anecdotal writing on writers. The first section on British writers looks at John Aubrey, Rudyard…
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O, How the Wheel Becomes It!
- £25.00
- G. F. H. Shadbold, a lifelong poseur and literary manqu lives, for the most part, in fear of discovery. A friend, Cedric Winterwade, whom he evidently seduced in his college days, writes a novel almost as insignificant and badly written as Shadbold's own literary output. As time passes, however, and…
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Temporary Kings (A Dance to the Music of Time 11)
- £20.00
- In the eleventh volume in Dance to the Music of Time, Nick Jenkins, persuaded by his old friend Mark Members, attends a literary conference in Venice. Meanwhile, old school pal Widmerpool continues to climb the ranks, this time as a Life Peer. But his position in power is under threat…
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Temporary Kings [Dance to the Music of Time 11]
- £50.00
- In the eleventh volume in Dance to the Music of Time, Nick Jenkins, persuaded by his old friend Mark Members, attends a literary conference in Venice. Meanwhile, old school pal Widmerpool continues to climb the ranks, this time as a Life Peer. But his position in power is under threat…
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The Album of Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time
- £30.00
- The perfect companion alongside Hilary Spurling's Handbook and of course the 12-volume novel sequence. Edited by Violet Powell, preface by Anthony Powell, introduction by John Bayley. With 224 period drawings, paintings and photographs.
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The Fisher King
- £20.00
- Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious…
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The Fisher King
- £25.00
- Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious…
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The Fisher King
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- Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious…
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The Fisher King
- £20.00
- Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul Henchman, a crippled, emasculated war hero and photographer. Fancifully, Beals imagines Henchman to be the reembodiment of one of the most mysterious…
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The Kindly Ones
- £30.00
- A Dance to the Music of Time (no 6.) With Britain on the brink of war yet again, Nick Jenkins reflects back on his childhood growing up in the shadow of World War I. Wanting to follow in his father’s footsteps, Nick sets his sights on becoming an officer in…
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The Kindly Ones [Dance to the Music of Time 6]
- £60.00
- In this sixth volume, with Britain on the brink of war yet again, Nick Jenkins reflects back on his childhood growing up in the shadow of World War I. Wanting to follow in his fatherÕs footsteps, Nick sets his sights on becoming an officer in the Army, and asks his…
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The Military Philosophers [A Dance to the Music of Time 9]
- £40.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
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The Soldier’s Art [A Dance to the Music of Time 8]
- £50.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
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The Soldier’s Art [Dance to the Music of Time 8]
- £60.00
- He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN 'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. It stands ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers. In…
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The Strangers All Are Gone (Vol 4 of To Keep The Ball Rolling)
- £30.00
- The fourth and final volume of Powell's memoirs opens in 1952 and includes his term as Literary Editor of "Punch," completion of the monumental "A Dance to the Music of Time," and a gallery of pointed, perceptive portraits of Powell's contemporaries.
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The Valley of Bones
- £6.00
- The 7th volume in Dance to the Music of Time in which Nicholas Jenkins is a 2nd Lieut in an infantry regiment, seeing at close quarters the reality and absurdities of army life.
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The Valley of Bones [Dance to the Music of Time 7]
- £60.00
- The 7th volume in Dance to the Music of Time in which Nicholas Jenkins is a 2nd Lieut in an infantry regiment, seeing at close quarters the reality and absurdities of army life.
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To Keep The Ball Rolling: The Memoirs Of Anthony Powell (4-volume set)
- £175.00
- After completing his 12-volume masterpiece, A Dance to the Music of Time, Powell began to publish his memoirs, in 4 volumes: Infants In Spring ISBN 0434599220, Messengers Of Day ISBN 0434599239, Faces In My Time ISBN 0434599247. The Strangers All Are Gone ISBN 0434599417.
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Under Review: Writings on Writers 1946-1990
- £35.00
- This selection from 40 years of reviews and articles by one of Britain's greatest living novelists falls into three sections: on fin-de-siecle figures such as Wilde and Beardsley, on early 20th century figures including members of the Bloomsbury circle, and on European writers such as Tolstoy, Stendhal and Flaubert.
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Venusberg
- £30.00
- Powell's early novel translated by Bruno Fonzi
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Venusberg
- £20.00
- An English journalist encounters dangerous hijinks on the Baltic Sea in this satirical novel by the author of A Dance to the Music of Time. Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the universal themes that would define…
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Venusberg + Agents & Patients
- £25.00
- Two early novels in one volume
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What’s Become of Waring
- £15.00
- In WhatÕs Become of Waring, Powell lampoons a world with which he was intimately acquainted: the inner workings of a small London publisher. But even as Powell eviscerates the publishersÕ less than scrupulous plotting in his tale of wild coincidences, mistaken identity, and romance, he never strays to the far…
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What’s Become Of Waring
- £30.00
- The hugely successful early novel which established Anthony Powell as a leading voice in English comic fiction, What's Become of Waring is the teasing and wittily contrived story about a famous but elsuive travel author who seems to have some very good reasons for concealing his life behind a screen…
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