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The classic literary saga continues as high society Londoners face the trials of the 1930s.
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed twelve-volume epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. As the fourth book, At Lady Molly's, opens, the heady pleasures of the 1920s have begun to give way to the austerity and worries of the 1930s. Even so, the whirl of London life continues: friends commit to causes and to spouses, confess adulteries, and fall victim to dissipation and disillusion. As Nick moves ever more comfortably in the worlds of art, culture, and society, Powell's palette broadens: old friends make appearances, but new ones take places on the stage as well -- including Isobel Tolland, whom Nick knows at first sight he's destined to marry.
"The most brilliant and penetrating novelist we have." -- Kingsley Amis
"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." -- 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." -- New Yorker
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