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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)
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* [[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
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* [[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 a Gentleman]]: Nick and his father before him
* [[One Degree of Separation]]
* [[Out with a Bang]]: {{spoiler|Ferrand-Seneschal and Pamela }}
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* [[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.
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