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Temporary Kings by Powell, Anthony is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Temporary Kings about?
The eleventh novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. Around 1958, a decade on from the preceding novel, Books Do Furnish a Room, Jenkins attends an international literary conference in Venice, where the death is announced of French author Ferrand-Sénéschal. Dr Emily Brightman introduces Jenkins to Russell Gwinnett, a prospective biographer of X Trapnel with a faintly alarming manner. Gwinnett naturally wishes to meet Pamela Widmerpool, and he produces a press report linking her with Ferrand-Sénéschal's death...
Who reads Temporary Kings?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Powell, Anthony
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781409039549
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Music
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (93 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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