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26. A Question of Upbringing - Anthony Powell
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47. A Dance to the Music of Time, novel 1: A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell
Have been meaning to read this for years, ever since seeing a wonderful adaptation on Channel 4. I enjoyed this first one. My boyfriend complained that "nothing happened" and he has a point, but it ... 30) A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell--This is the first volume in Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time sequence of novels, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There were quite a few similarities, I thought, to Of Human Bondage, which I also loved. I'd been going through a bit of a dry ... 30) A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell--This is the first volume in Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time sequence of novels, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. There were quite a few similarities, I thought, to Of Human Bondage, which I also loved. I'd been going through a bit of a dry ... "It was your talking about Oscar Wilde."
A Question of Upbringing, Anthony Powell
"Where can I be sick?" ... of "I've got a great idea for a novel and I'm going to write it if it kills me".
I've now started Anthony Powell's A Question of Upbringing, the the first book in his 12-volume A Dance to the Music of Time series.
Normal service - i.e., sf reading - will resume later... ... male-centred, and it takes a while for any important female characters to appear. If you start and find you don't like A question of upbringing - basically a school story that doesn't do all that much besides introducing the characters - try skipping ahead to A buyer's market, which is ... ... picked up the Raj Quartet by Paul Scott and the first book of Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time: A Question of Upbringing.
But, no, I wouldn't say there's anything "closet" about it. ... at Oxford, although mostly it's just a generic college setting (e.g. Thackeray always calls the city "Oxbridge").
A question of upbringing (the first part of A dance to the music of time) is partly set in Oxford.
John Buchan's The blanket of the dark is a historical novel set in ...
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