Can I read Books do furnish a room ; Temporary kings ; Hearing secret harmonies on EtoBox?

Books do furnish a room ; Temporary kings ; Hearing secret harmonies by Anthony Powell is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Books do furnish a room ; Temporary kings ; Hearing secret harmonies about?

EDITORIAL REVIEW: 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 humil

Author

Anthony Powell

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

1975

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316715362

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Children'S, Fiction

Rating

3.67 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24