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Title	:	A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time #10-12)
Author	:	Anthony Powell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 793 pages
Published	:	May 31st 1995 by University of Chicago Press (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. European Literature. British Literature

A Dance to the Music of Time: 4th Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time #10-12)

Anthony Powell

Paperback | Pages: 793 pages

Rating: 4.22 | 1261 Users | 87 Reviews

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Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World War I. Amid the fever of the 1920s and the first chill of the 1930s, Nick Jenkins and his friends confront sex, society, business, and art. In the second volume they move to London in a whirl of marriage and adulteries, fashions and frivolities, personal triumphs and failures. These books "provide an unsurpassed picture, at once gay and melancholy, of social and artistic life in Britain between the wars" (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.). The third volume follows Nick into army life and evokes London during the blitz. In the climactic final volume, England has won the war and must now count the losses.

In this climactic volume of A Dance to the Music of Time, Nick Jenkins describes a world of ambition, intrigue, and dissolution. England has won the war, but now the losses, physical and moral, must be counted. Pamela Widmerpool sets a snare for the young writer Trapnel, while her husband suffers private agony and public humiliation. Set against a background of politics, business, high society, and the counterculture in England and Europe, this magnificent work of art sounds an unforgettable requiem for an age.

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Original Title:	A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement
ISBN:	0226677184 (ISBN13: 9780226677187)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	A Dance to the Music of Time #10-12
Characters:	Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool

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I confess I embarked on this behemoth out of a sense of filial insecurity. This past summer my idol Perry Anderson published a two part essay in the London Review of Books making the bizarrely hyperbolic claim that Anthony Powell is actually better than Proust. The magus of Marxism is mysterious; the ways of his mind are not like yours or mine; while omniscient, he is also prone to truly outlandish judgments from time to time. On the face of it, Powell's opus would seem to be the apotheosis of

Not as much fun as the other three volumes in the collection, and the last book Hearing Secret Harmonies was a bit too wacky for me. Still, a great series altogether, and I might see if I can find some other works by Powell.When the TBR goes down a bit...

The review that used to live here has been prettied up and moved to The Millions.

This is one of the masterworks of the English language. I am awed by the ability of the author to keep a coherent story over such a long period of time and so many pages. As others have noted, this is really one long (very long) novel. Few will have the fortitude to complete the entire opus (and if time is short and you have better things to do, life will go on if you don't read these books), even though the reading is not difficult. True, the writing style can be a tiny bit on the opaque side

It is so bittersweet to say goodbye to this series, although the real tears were shed in the third movement when so many were lost to the war, either directly or indirectly. The fourth movement corresponds to winter and naturally death and there are many who bow out of the dance in these last three volumes. But of course, Widermerpool lives on, right up almost to the very end. How could he not? He is oddly both chameleon-like as he inveigles his way into leftist politics, publishing, knighthood

The Fourth Movement is suffused with the narrators study of Robert Burtons The Anatomy of Melancholy and while I haven't read the Burton, its familiar enough for me to have enjoyed the references to it, the last of which is perfect for the ending.The narrator Nick, or Nicholas, as hes increasingly called as he ages, is the ultimate observer. Any time the contortions needed to tell the stories of other characters backstories, conversations relayed by othersmerely threaten to turn a bit

Autumn dies, winter arrivesTurning the last page of the book Ive got a feeling of deep nostalgia exactly like it is shown on the famous painting by Ford Madox Brown: The Last of England. It was so sad to say goodbye to all the characters I lived among them so long.People think because a novels invented, it isnt true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novels invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cant include every conceivable circumstance of