Anthony Powell

A Buyer's Market is the second novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-novel series, A Dance to the Music of Time. Published in 1952, it continues the story of narrator Nick Jenkins with his introduction into society after boarding school and university. The book presents new characters, notably the painter Mr. Deacon and …

Three novels which form the second part of a sequence of 12 books written over a period of 25 years. The whole is framed and distanced through the eyes of its narrator, Nicholas Jenkins, whose generation grew up in the shadow of World War I only to find their lives dislocated by World War II.

Anthony Powell's famous `Time' sequence of books deftly choreographs the lives of more than three hundred characters over a period of seventy years and chronicles the whole century. Now, Mandarin are specially reissuing the four omnibus volumes to tie in to the forthcoming Channel Four production, four 2 hour episodes …

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, …

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, …