The Acceptance World Book 3 of A Dance to the Music of Time edition by Anthony Powell Literature Fiction eBooks
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Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London . Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with a twenty-first-century twist they’re available only as e-books.
The third volume, The Acceptance World (1955), opens with Nick Jenkins, in his late twenties, beginning to make his way in the world of letters working for a publisher, writing on his own, and establishing connections across the literary landscape. At the same time, he is making his way in love, as a surprise meeting with an old friend’s sister blossoms into an affair. Meanwhile, friends are diving into marriage and careers, and the patterns of life’s dance are starting to take shape—even as the future steps remain shadowy.
"Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."--Chicago Tribune
"A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's."--Elizabeth Janeway, New York Times
"One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience."--Naomi Bliven, New Yorker
“The most brilliant and penetrating novelist we have.”--Kingsley Amis
The Acceptance World Book 3 of A Dance to the Music of Time edition by Anthony Powell Literature Fiction eBooks
I love reading the rich, descriptive passages of Anthony Powell in this series, but I find this book to be filler. Like a mid season episode of a favorite show, a lot occurs, but nothing of real impact. Now, the various participants in Powell’s depiction of the interwar aristocracy have a tendency to jump into and out of bed with each other while surfacing in the most unlikely places; however, I feel that our protagonist and his fellows are basically where we found them at the end of the second volume. Templar is wealthy but unhappy. Nick is single but in love. Stringham is throwing away his life. Widmerpool is oddly successful. The Isbister prologue is still unwritten.A pleasure to read, with many details that may payoff in the future (it is a 12 volume series), this particular entry just felt bland. 3 and a half stars.
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The Acceptance World Book 3 of A Dance to the Music of Time edition by Anthony Powell Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I have been waiting a long time to read the complete 12 books. Now, the time is here and so far have enjoyed the first three and look forward to reading the other nine.
Funny on the surface, scarifying when you pause to look. Powell's deceptive modernism is very striking in this volume of his masterwork.
It gives picture of how the upper middle class comported themselves before WW2. How accurate it is may be questionable.
Anthony Powell's series of novels 'A Dance of the Music of Time' is beautifully written and quite entertaining, certainly a very good summer read. At this point I've read six of the novels, not in the correct order. With my limited familiarity with the British novel I hope it is not unfair to say these books are masterly without being masterpieces. A particular virtue may be their period mood and detail. The characters live and strive in the era of Britain's relative decline where historical change and personal struggle interestingly illuminate British character -- it should be said mainly upper-class British character. Here, the conventions that held the Golden Age in balance are unravelling. If there is one definite negative for me, it is that the narrator seems more and more socially and emotionally neutral. I'm not sure if this is deliberate on the part of the novelist or not. If you enjoy an Andrew Davies/BBC costume drama sort of milieu, these books provide it in spades.
im cheating and writing the same review for each of these 12 books because the reasons i love them are the same for each
if you love proust, evelyn waugh, atonement and the like - then you will love these books - they are a wonderful - principally internal monologue/dialogue based - stroll through the middle of the 20th century - nothing much happens, nobody is particularly happy, but it's fascinating in any case
although - there's a chance that - given my love for long series - i may just love these because there's 12 of them...
Having just read "The Acceptance World," I'm now one-quarter of the way through Anthony Powell's 12-volume set, "A Dance to the Music of Time." In order not to be pre-directed into ways of thinking about the series, I've avoided reading any literary analysis of what the critics regard as a monumental work, the result being that I'm not quite sure yet what to make of "A Dance to the Music of Time." The lead character is now only about 27-years of age, and most of the others are his contemporaries and only beginning to make lives for themselves in London of the 1920s. This doesn't mean that they are slow about it several have already been married and are either divorced or separated. In this Book 3, not much happens, but the story, as does life, inexorably moves forward, and in the case of these books, some very ordinary life happenings are accompanied by gorgeous writing of the kind seldom encountered, and it is the writing, above all else, which makes me want to proceed to Book 4, which I will do after taking a little break.
This is an improvement over A BUYER’S MARKET. It’s my favorite in the series so far.
The characters in this book spend much of their time falling in and out of love. It all happens in a fairly tight social circle. An ex-wife becomes the girlfriend of the friend of a friend of the ex-husband and so on. It’s like a square dance where the dancers frequently change partners.
There’s also a funny séance, British Marxism is presented as radical chic and a speech by Widmerpool which ends only when one of the audience members has a stroke.
It’s enjoyable reading.
2.9 stars
I love reading the rich, descriptive passages of Anthony Powell in this series, but I find this book to be filler. Like a mid season episode of a favorite show, a lot occurs, but nothing of real impact. Now, the various participants in Powell’s depiction of the interwar aristocracy have a tendency to jump into and out of bed with each other while surfacing in the most unlikely places; however, I feel that our protagonist and his fellows are basically where we found them at the end of the second volume. Templar is wealthy but unhappy. Nick is single but in love. Stringham is throwing away his life. Widmerpool is oddly successful. The Isbister prologue is still unwritten.
A pleasure to read, with many details that may payoff in the future (it is a 12 volume series), this particular entry just felt bland. 3 and a half stars.
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