ISBN: 9781409037828

The opening novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time.Published in 1951, it begins the story of a trio of boys, Nicholas Jenkins (the narrato… Mehr…

The opening novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time.Published in 1951, it begins the story of a trio of boys, Nicholas Jenkins (the narrator), Charles Stringham, and Peter Templer, who are friends at a nameless school (based upon Powell's public school Eton College) and then move on to different paths. A fourth figure, Kenneth Widmerpool, stands slightly apart from them, poised for greatness.The novel is concerned with the flow and transience of life and the play of time upon love and friendship. Another major theme introduced in A Question of Upbringing is the consequence of living by the will.In presenting four very different characters - "the artist, the romantic, the cynic, and the man of will" - the author sets the scene for an extended exploration of what it means to grow and mature. The language of youth, deployed with precision, is used to depict the emergence of the boys into manhood in a period when memories of the Great War overshadow many of their elders.; EPUB; Fiction > Modern & contemporary fiction, Ashgate Publishing Ltd<

2011, ISBN: 9781409037828

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, '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 … Mehr…

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, '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 a new generation of readers.In this first volume, Nick Jenkins is introduced to the ebbs and flows of life at boarding school in the 1920s, spent in the company of his friends: Peter Templer, Charles Stringham, and Kenneth Widmerpool.Though their days are filled with visits from relatives and boyish pranks, usually at the expense of their housemaster Le Bas, a disastrous trip in Templer s car threatens their new friendship. As the school year comes to a close, the young men are faced with the prospects of adulthood, and with finding their place in the world. [PU: Random House], Seiten: 272, Random House, 2011<

ISBN: 9781409037828

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*A Question of Upbringing* / epub eBook für 8.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Unterhaltung Medien > Bücher nein eBook als epub eBooks > Belletristik > Unterhaltung, Random House UK Ltd<

ISBN: 9781409037828

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2011, ISBN: 9781409037828

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), Auflage, [PU: Random House], [ED: 1], Random House, 2011