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A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time #7-9)

Anthony Powell

Paperback | Pages: 715 pages

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Original Title:	A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement
ISBN:	0226677176 (ISBN13: 9780226677170)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	A Dance to the Music of Time #7-9
Characters:	Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool

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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 third volume of A Dance to the Music of Time, we again meet Widmerpool, doggedly rising in rank; Jenkins, shifted from one dismal army post to another; Stringham, heroically emerging from alcoholism; Templer, still on his eternal sexual quest. Here, too, we are introduced to Pamela Flitton, one of the most beautiful and dangerous women in modern fiction. Wickedly barbed in its wit, uncanny in its seismographic recording of human emotions and social currents, this saga stands as an unsurpassed rendering of England's finest yet most costly hour.

Includes these novels:
The Valley of Bones
The Soldier's Art
The Military Philosophers

"Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."—Chicago Tribune

"A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's."—Elizabeth Janeway, New York Times

"One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."—Naomi Bliven, New Yorker

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Title	:	A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement (A Dance to the Music of Time #7-9)
Author	:	Anthony Powell
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 715 pages
Published	:	May 31st 1995 by University of Chicago Press (first published 1970)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. European Literature. British Literature

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This one had the same compelling feel as the other two, but it definitely wasn't as good. The author used the same methods to tie everything together, but in the first of the novels in this volume, the speech was very weird sounding. And most of it took place in military offices during the war and the story was sometimes bogged down in technical discussion. I still look forward to the next one though!

The third season into Powell's "A Dance to the Music of Time" series, and I finally feel that I'm understanding what's going on. Powell's series is very British, and early on I missed a lot of action because it was hidden amongst the understatements and other polite forms of communication. I read this group of three much more closely, and I feel that I got much more out of it. "Autumn" (as my three in one volume calls this group of three) is the World War II years for Jenkins and his life

This is a very strong 4 rating, with episodes that were higher. Some of the war minutiae occasionally seemed excessive but then Powell again would steer me to a place I hadn't expected, an insight well earned.full review to come...

It seems summer will last But autumn is already at the doorstep.Think first, fight afterwards the soldiers art Robert Browning Childe Roland to the Dark Tower CameThey think Tsars, dictators, despots, tyrants always think that they will win and they start fighting Widmerpool, earlier defined as a frog footman, came to power frog footmen always do and now he sets the rules But his brains remain those of a frog.And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of

Novels 7-9 of Powell's overall twelveThe Valley of Bones -- 3/5It took me some time to get into reading this one.Partly due to it being a war novel, and my dislike of/disinterest in war novels. And partly due to a near-complete reboot of characters. After six novels of getting to know all of the characters of Jenkins' aristocratic world, Powell replaces all of them with the new characters of Jenkins' military career.As I said, it took some time to get used to these new characters and to care

It seems summer will last But autumn is already at the doorstep.Think first, fight afterwards the soldiers art Robert Browning Childe Roland to the Dark Tower CameThey think Tsars, dictators, despots, tyrants always think that they will win and they start fighting Widmerpool, earlier defined as a frog footman, came to power frog footmen always do and now he sets the rules But his brains remain those of a frog.And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of

The more I listen to these books the more I admire Powell's wonderful prose and the control he exerts over his ever-increasing cast of characters. They come together, they part, they come together again in the dance that gives its name to the series.The Third Movement - novels seven to nine of the series - covers WWII. It commences with the narrator Nick Jenkins' enlistment in the army and ends six years later with his demobilisation. However, although the war forms the background to the