A Dance to the Music of Time

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A Dance to the Music of Time, series of 12 novels by Anthony Powell, published from 1951 to 1975. The series—which includes A Question of Upbringing (1951), A Buyer’s Market (1952), The Acceptance World (1955), At Lady Molly’s (1957), Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant (1960), The Kindly Ones (1962), The Valley of Bones (1964), The Soldier’s Art (1966), The Military Philosophers (1968), Books Do Furnish a Room (1971), Temporary Kings (1973), and Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975)—traces events in the lives of a number of characters from Britain’s upper classes and bohemia, following them from adolescence in the 1920s to senescence in the ...(100 of 198 words)