A Dance To The Music Of Time
By Anthony Powell
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A Dance To The Music Of Time by Anthony Powell ranked # 43 on The Modern Library's Top 100 Novels list as selected by its Board Members.
A Dance to the Music of Time is a twelve-volume novel by Anthony
Powell, inspired by the masterpiece of the same name by Nicolas
Poussin.
It is often, erroneously, referred to as a roman a clef.
One of the longest works of fiction in literature, it was published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim.
The story is an often comic examination of movements and manners, power and
passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid
20th century.
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