Invitation To The Dance
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A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell’s 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of 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 of Anthony Powell.

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Weight 0.245 kg
Dimensions 2.1 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

352
Publisher

Year Published

2005-5-5
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099484366
About The Author

Hilary Spurling won the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919, and the Duff Cooper Prize and Heinemann Award for Secrets of a Woman's Heart: The Later Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1920-1969. She is also the author of Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book, Paper Spirits and The Girl from the Fiction Department: A Portrait of Sonia Orwell. She has been Arts and Literary Editor of the Spectator, and a regular reviewer for the Observer, the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph.

Hilary Spurling's exhaustive analysis of the novel's characters supplies a master-key for the reader

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