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Line 1: {{work}} '''''A Dance to the Music of Time''''' is a twelve-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell, inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin. [[Doorstopper ~~One~~\|One of the longest works of fiction in literature]], it was published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim. The story is an often comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid 20th century. The sequence is narrated by Nick Jenkins in the form of his reminiscences. Over the course of the following volumes, he recalls the people he met over the previous half a century. Little is told of Jenkins's personal life beyond his encounters with the great and the bad, with events, such as his wife's miscarriage, only being related in conversation with the principal characters. [[The Everyman\|Nick mainly functions as a cipher, reporting on the actions of the other characters]], specifically the inscrutable Kenneth Widmerpool who is arguably the protagonist of the series As mentioned above, the story is told over twelve novels: # ''[[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) # ''[[Hearing Secret Harmonies]]'' (1975) ---- {{franchisetropes}} ~~=== Contains examples of: ===~~ * [[The Alcoholic]]: Charles Stringham * [[An Officer and A Gentleman]]: Nick and his father before him ▼ * [[Anything That Moves]]: Dear god Pamela * [[Big Fancy House]] : The Tollands own one, also Sir Magnus Donners' house keeps coming up Line 15 ⟶ 28: * [[Doorstopper]] * [[Femme Fatale]]: Pamela * [[First -Person Peripheral Narrator]]: Nick serves as the narrator, however Widmerpool is the protaganist of the series. * [[Full -Frontal Assault]]: A few of the women do this to the point where it becomes kind of a motif * [[Geek]]/[[Nerd]] Widmerpool * [[Genteel Interbellum Setting]]: The first few books are set between the wars Line 25 ⟶ 38: * [[Mood Whiplash]]: The books mix together the satirical and the soap operatic * [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Many of the characters are based on real people, who exactly is a matter of some speculation but some of the possibilities are [[George Orwell]], [[Harold Pinter]], and [[Aleister Crowley]] ▲* [[An Officer and Aa Gentleman]]: Nick and his father before him * [[One Degree of Separation]] * [[Out ~~With~~with a Bang]]: {{spoiler\|Ferrand-Seneschal and Pamela }} * [[Peeping Tom]]: Widmerpool, also Sir Magnus Donners * [[Rich Bitch]]: Pamela Line 33 ⟶ 47: * [[Unsexy Sadist]]: Scorp Murtlock * [[The Vamp]]: Pamela again * [[World War II]]: ''[[The Kindly Ones]]'', ''[[The Valley of Bones]]'', ''[[The Soldier's Art]]'', and ''[[The Military Philosophers]]'' are all set between 1939 and 1945. * [[World War II]] {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Lit Fic]] [[Category:Long Running Book Series]] [[Category:~~A Dance to The Music of Time~~Literature]] [[Category:Literature of the 1950s]] [[Category:Literature of the 1960s]] [[Category:Literature of the 1970s]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Dance to the Music of Time, A}}