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Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 4
£5.70
Volume 4 contains novels ten to twelve of the Dance To The Music Of Time sequence.
Anthony Powell’s brilliant twelve novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations.
Volume 4 contains the last three novels in the sequence: Books do Furnish a Room; Temporary Kings; Hearing Secret Harmonies
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Additional information
| Publisher | Cornerstone Digital, New edition (30 Nov. 2013) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| File size | 1114 KB |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 818 pages |
by Teresa T. Da Mota
I loved these books, one of the great Literature works of our time. I highly recommend it. It is set against the first World War. It goes on for more than a generation and the characters keep up appearing and disappearing. all through the 4 volumes.. It is a great rendition of the upper classes way of life in London, during those years. Fabulous.
by richard ewence
These 12 volumes have been my companions for nearly a year now. The narration has been absorbing from start to finish, but I would be hard-pressed to explain what the book is about. There certainly isn’t a story although there are hundreds of characters, many of whom are painted in great detail. The language is sumptuous and the prose seems effortlessly fluent, which is fortunate as there is a great deal of it. I don’t think there are many readers who would stay the course from start to finish but although I had had one or two false starts previously, once I got started this time, there was never any doubt that I would see it through. It just seems to take over one’s life. I wonder if I will ever re-read it or if life will prove too short? A great book for a desert island I think.
by Milagre
. . . the doings of upper class people over 3000 pages (for the whole 4 part 12 novel series) where nothing really happens. It is all about the pure sensuality of language.
by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley
So now, the end is near…Has it been worth it? I don’t know to be honest. These last three volumes of the twelve that make up the Dance to the Music of Time cycle, seem rather like an odd afterthought or p.s. They are set far apart in terms of time from the chronology of the first nine books, and as many of the characters met their end in the war, depicted in books 7-9, a whole new cast has to be dragged in so that Powell can finish off his fascination with the character of Kenneth Widmerpool to the bitter end. Bits of these books were reasonably interesting to me, mostly book ten worked. Book twelve in particular I found a stretch too far, and I find myself, at the end of this herculean task of reading somewhat puzzled by it all. I need to go away and think about it for a while. As one of the other reviewers on here said, you cannot commit to the other books without reading these three. By this stage you have invested so much time and energy in the whole thing you simply can’t leave it dangling in mid air, but I do think that things would have been much neater and more satisfactory as a whole if Powell had put the pen down at the end of book nine.
by Mr Chris Armes
Final volume of the four, each consisting of three books. Viewed the video? Now read the in depth version. We’ll worth the read.
by Michael Vaughan-Rees
This sequence of novels by Anthony Powell is one to read and reread, with characters popping up again after 10 days or 10 years. A better way to find out about much of 20th century Britain than in any number of histories.
by Ballistic
The Dance to the Music of time has long been one of favourite reads,in fact many of them I read as they first published. The observation and writing keeps you glued to the page. My only regret this time was that Amazon left some of the books, notably the War volumes.
by Graeme D Hibberd
A long haul through the middle of the twentieth century. A fascinating glimpse into upper class literary life. A complex swirling life.