Anthony Powell

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1954
  • Latest Book:
    November 2015
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Full Series List in Order

A Dance to the Music of Time

2 - A Buyer's Market (Apr-1985)
3 - The Acceptance World (Jun-1985)
4 - At Lady Molly's (Jun-1985)
6 - Kindly Ones (Aug-1985)
8 - Soldier's Art (Oct-1985)
11 - Temporary Kings (1973)
12 - Hearing Secret Harmonies (Jan-1975)
The Valley of Bones (Dec-1983)
Military Philosophers (Nov-1985)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • From a View to a Death

    Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud -- such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds...

  • Venusberg

    An English journalist encounters dangerous hijinks on the Baltic Sea in this satirical novel by the author of A Dance to the Music of Time.Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of Anthony Powell nevertheless...

  • Dance to the Music of Time

    Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times, A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after World Wa...

  • Books Do Furnish a Room

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • Temporary Kings

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    A Dance to the Music of Time - 11

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • Hearing Secret Harmonies

    A Dance to the Music of Time - 12

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • The Valley of Bones

    A Dance to the Music of Time

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • To Keep the Ball Rolling

  • A Buyer's Market

    A Dance to the Music of Time - 2

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...



  • A Question of Upbringing

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • The Acceptance World

    A Dance to the Music of Time - 3

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London . Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally ...

  • At Lady Molly's

    A Dance to the Music of Time - 4

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • Casanova's Chinese Restaurant

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • Kindly Ones

    A Dance to the Music of Time - 6

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • Soldier's Art

    A Dance to the Music of Time - 8

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • Military Philosophers

    A Dance to the Music of Time

    Anthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally p...

  • The Fisher King

    Arthurian legend and cruise ship gossip entwine in this “profoundly touching, comic novel” by the celebrated author of A Dance to the Music of Time (Chicago Tribune).Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship...

  • Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 1

    A QUESTION OF UPBRINGINGA BUYER'S MARKETTHE ACCEPTANCE WORLDAnthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for i...

  • Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 2



  • Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 4

  • Autumn

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  • Venusburg

  • What's Become of Waring

    Unsavory artists, titled boobs, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud -- such are the oddballs whose antics animate the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell. A genius of social satire delivered with a very dry wit, Powell builds...

  • Our Cat Hogan - Could He Be Part Dog?

    OUR CAT HOGAN - COULD HE BE PART DOG? is the amusing story of a real-life Kansas Cat who seems a bit confused. After adopting him, Hogan's family noticed he was MUCH FRIENDLIER than any other cat they had ever been around. Other people noticed too. S...

  • Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 3

  • Agents and Patients

    A wealthy Londoner falls victim to conmen on a journey through interwar Europe in this early novel by the celebrated author (New York Times).Unsavory artists, aristocratic nitwits, and charlatans with an affinity for Freud -- such are the oddballs wh...

  • O, How the Wheel Becomes It!

    The first novel Anthony Powell published following the completion of his epic A Dance to the Music of Time, O, How the Wheel Becomes It! fulfills perhaps every author’s fantasy as it skewers a conceited, lazy, and dishonest critic. A writer who avo...

  • Books Do Furnsih a Room

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  • First Movement

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    Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic encompasses a four-volume panorama of twentieth century London. Hailed by Time as "brilliant literary comedy as well as a brilliant sketch of the times," A Dance to the Music of Time opens just after Wor...



  • Infants of the Spring

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Anthony Powell has published 30 books.

Anthony Powell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, O, How the Wheel Becomes It!, was published in November 2015.

The first book by Anthony Powell, From a View to a Death, was published in March 1954.

Yes. Anthony Powell has 1 series.
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