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Anthony Powell (1) [1905–2000]

This page covers the author of A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement, Spring.

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Anthony Powell was born on December 21, 1905 in Westminster, England and was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1926 he became an editor at Duckworth & Co. and later moved on to be a scriptwriter for Warner Brothers. By 1937 he was a regular contributor to The Spectator and the Daily Telegraph. From 1953-1959 Powell was the Literary Editor of Punch. His first book, The Barnard Letter, was published in 1928 and his first novel, Afternoon Men, was published in 1931. In 1951 Powell published A Question of Upbringing, which was the first of the 12-novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time. In 1975 he published Hearing Secret Harmonies, which was the last novel of the sequence. Powell wrote Infants of the Spring, which is part of To Keep the Ball Rolling, his memoirs. He also published The Fisher King in 1986. Anthony Powell died peacefully at his home, The Chantry, aged 94 on March 28, 2000. (Bowker Author Biography)
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A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement, Spring 1,730 copies, 30 reviews
A Question of Upbringing 955 copies, 22 reviews
A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement, Summer 875 copies, 20 reviews
A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement, Autumn 839 copies, 14 reviews
A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement, Winter 813 copies, 13 reviews
A Buyer's Market 533 copies, 15 reviews
The Acceptance World 493 copies, 19 reviews
At Lady Molly's 477 copies, 11 reviews
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant 431 copies, 16 reviews
The Kindly Ones 414 copies, 11 reviews
Books Do Furnish a Room 397 copies, 10 reviews
The Valley of Bones 374 copies, 15 reviews
The Military Philosophers 357 copies, 11 reviews
Temporary Kings 341 copies, 9 reviews
Hearing Secret Harmonies 336 copies, 10 reviews
The Soldier's Art 334 copies, 11 reviews
Afternoon Men 193 copies, 5 reviews
The Fisher King 155 copies, 2 reviews
O, How the Wheel Becomes It! 154 copies, 6 reviews
What's Become of Waring 145 copies, 5 reviews
A Dance to the Music of Time 135 copies, 5 reviews
From a View to a Death 122 copies
Venusberg 121 copies, 2 reviews
To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell 96 copies, 2 reviews
Agents and Patients 83 copies
Infants of the Spring: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell 72 copies, 6 reviews
Faces in My Time: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell 64 copies, 1 review
Messengers of Day: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell 62 copies, 1 review
The Strangers Are All Gone: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell 56 copies
John Aubrey and his friends 44 copies, 2 reviews
Brief lives, and other selected writings (Editor) 31 copies
Miscellaneous Verdicts 31 copies, 1 review
Journals 1987-1989 28 copies, 1 review
Journals, 1982-86 27 copies
Anthony Powell: Journals 1990 - 1992 24 copies, 1 review
Under Review: Further Writings on Writers, 1946-1990 21 copies
Venusberg | Agents and Patients 19 copies
A Writer's Notebook 9 copies
Novels of High Society from the Victorian Age (Editor) 9 copies
Two Plays: The Garden God & The Rest I'll Whistle 8 copies
A Dance to the Music of Time: Vol. 2 - (From the 1st & 2nd Movements)… 7 copies
Some Poets, Artists & "A Reference for Mellors" 4 copies
The Acceptance of Absurdity: Anthony Powell & Robert Vanderbilt Letters… 3 copies
Caledonia: A Fragment 3 copies
A Dance to the Music of Time: Vol. 1 - (From the 1st Movement) [Audio… 2 copies
Dance to the Music of Time, Books 1-6 1 copy
Anthony Powell on Wine 1 copy
The empire revisited 1 copy
Powell Anthony 1 copy
Likes and dislikes 1 copy
A Dance to the Music of Time: Vol. 3 - (From the 2nd Movement) [Audio… 1 copy
A Dance to the Music of Time: Vol. 6 - (From The 4th Movement) [audio… 1 copy
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Invitation to the Dance (Introduction, some editions) 141 copies, 1 review
Complete Ronald Firbank (Introduction, some editions; Introduction, some editions) 80 copies, 1 review
The Image of a Drawn Sword (Introduction) 70 copies, 1 review
The Old School: Essays by Divers Hands (Contributor) 29 copies
A Dance to the Music of Time [1997 TV mini series] (Original book) 20 copies
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Powell, Anthony Dymoke
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Date of birth
1905-12-21
Date of death
2000-03-28
Burial location
Gender
male
Nationality
England
UK
Country (for map)
England
Birthplace
London, England, UK
Place of death
Frome, Somerset, England, UK
Cause of death
Places of residence
Aldershot, Hampshire, England, UK
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Education
University of Oxford (Balliol College)
Eton College
Occupations
novelist
publisher
soldier
Relationships
Pakenham, Frank (brother-in-law)
Waugh, Evelyn (friend)
Powell, Lady Violet (wife)
Pakenham, Edward (brother-in-law)
Clive, Mary (sister-in-law)
Organizations
Hypocrites Club, Oxford
Welch Regiment (WWII)
Awards and honors
Order of the Companions of Honour (1988)
Order of the British Empire (Commander, 1956)
offered knighthood in 1973; declined
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary - Literature, 1977)
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Anthony Dymoke Powell CH, CBE was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975.
Powell's major work has remained in print continuously and has been the subject of TV and radio dramatisations. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Powell among their list of 'The 50 Greatest British Writers since 1945'.

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