INVITATION TO THE DANCE by Hilary Spurling ( 9780099484363 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

INVITATION TO THE DANCE

By:

Hilary Spurling

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0099484366

ISBN 13:

9780099484363

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Publisher:

CORNERSTONE

Pub. date:

5 May, 2005

Pages:

352

Description:

Contains character, book, painting and place indices. This work is a database of Anthony Powell's imagination and England's cultural landscape. It details over four hundred characters and one million words of Powell's fifty-year dance of fiction and fact.

Synopsis:

A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music 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' Anthony Powell

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Arrow Books Ltd

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