
L ast October, Mark Edmundson, a professor of English at the University of Virginia, posted the cover of A Dance to the Music of Time on Facebook with the statement “Don’t always like it, but can’t stop reading it.” I was intrigued.
In the next six months, I completed all 12 volumes of the series by Anthony Powell. It was an amazing experience.
The series provides a wonderful window into the social history of five decades in London, from the end of World War I through the 1960s, told through the world of creativity — books, paintings, and music. The narrator and main character, Nicholas Jenkins, is a writer.
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