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 an example of the roman fleuve, or “river novel” and is intended to be read as a unity. As such, it is often compared to Marcel Proust’s masterwork, A la recherche de temps perdu. Dance constitutes a sort of history of the twentieth century British life: it follows upper-middle class narrator Nicholas Jenkins and his contemporaries throughout a rapidly changing world from 1921 to 1971, with coverage weighed more heavily to the earlier years. All volumes have the James Broom-Lynne dust jackets 1. A Question Of Upbringing. 1951 [230pp] / 2. A Buyer’s Market. 1952 [274pp] / 3. The Acceptance World. 1955 [214pp] / 4. At Lady Molly’s. 1957. [239pp] / 5. Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant. 1960. [229pp] / 6. The Kindly Ones. 1962 [254pp] / 7. The Valley Of Bones. 1964 [243pp] / 8. The Soldier’s Art.1966 [228pp] / 9. The Military Philosophers. 1968 [244pp] / 10. Books Do Furnish A Room. 1971 [241pp] / 11. Temporary Kings. 1973 [280pp] / 12. Hearing Secret Harmonies, 1975 [272pp]