Invitation To The Dance: A Handbook to Anthony Powell´s A Dance t

Invitation To The Dance: A Handbook to Anthony Powell´s A Dance t
A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell´s 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary, Invitation to the Dance contains extensive Character, Book, Painting and Place indices, creating a magnificent database of Powell´s imagination and England´s cultural landscape. This is a masterpiece of ´extreme ingenuity´ detailing over four hundred characters and one million words of Powell´s lively fifty-year dance of fiction and fact. ´Hilary Spurling´s exhaustive analysis of the novel´s characters supplies a master-key for the reader of Anthony Powell.