Hearing Secret Harmonies
- ISBN-10
- 0099472538
- ISBN-13
- 9780099472537
- Category
- Autobiographical fiction, English
- Pages
- 271
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Anthony Powell
Description
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. The novels follow Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool and others, as they negotiate the intellectual, cultural and social hurdles that stand between them and the “Acceptance World.”
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- 2010-12-01
- 276 pages
- Ebook
- University of Chicago Press
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