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.
ISBN: | 9780099484363 |
Publisher: | Random House |
Imprint: | Arrow Books |
Published date: | 05 May 2005 |
DEWEY: | 823.912 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Sales rank: | 8917 |
Number of pages: | 329 |
Weight: | 250g |
Height: | 199mm |
Width: | 129mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |