The Military Philosophers (A Dance to the Music of our Time)
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (969 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B002VKVN7Q |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 250 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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He reveals as much about real life as any living English novelist." Martin Semour-Smith, Spectator. "Powell addicts wait desperately for their biennial treat. Powell is very like a drug, the more compelling the more you read him. "The most distinguished, subtle and consistent practitioner of avant-garde fiction in Great Britain today is Anthony Powell. But even coming from the cold I would be impressed by the skill with which he manipulates the wide cast through the grey half-light of wartime LondonThe brief sketches of Alanbrooks and Montgomery are little masterpieces; but the odious Widmerpool still looms gigantic overall." Michael Howard, Sunday Times.
Engrave no battle on his cheek Darwin8u "Engrave no battle on his cheek, With war I've naught to do, I'm none of those that took Maestrick, Nor Yarmouth Leaguer knew.-- 'Vulcan, contrive me such a cup', John Wilmot, Earl of RochesterThis is the last book in the Fall/WWII trilogy (3rd Movement) of A Dance to the Music of Time. It was at once the saddest of the series so far and also the most Proustian, with several direct quotations from Remembrance of Things Past and also several geographies in common with that other monster of 20th Century fiction.The book had me hooked from the first couple paragraphs. To me, at least, it resembled (in a less funky and m. Inner Disciplines Mary E. Sibley As the story opens, the reader learns narrator Nicholas Jenkins is an assistant to the Polish Liaison Office. Later Nick works with the Belgians and the Czechs. Kenneth Widmerpool, despised school friend, is now Colonel Widmerpool. Widmerpool's capacity for work is enormous.Sunny Farebrother, his opposite number, is famous for his charm. Peter Templer and Sir Magnus Donners appear on the scene to talk on economic warfare. They have remained civilians. Nick feels that Templer has acquired a new look, a hardness. After an hour long discussion on Polish generals, Nick and Peter Templer leave a meeting so that the other . The latter half of World War II, where victory brings unexpected reunions and new scandals THE MILITARY PHILOSOPHERS is the ninth novel in Anthony Powell's long sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" and the last to cover World War II. It opens early 19The latter half of World War II, where victory brings unexpected reunions and new scandals Christopher Culver THE MILITARY PHILOSOPHERS is the ninth novel in Anthony Powell's long sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" and the last to cover World War II. It opens early 1942 with Nicholas Jenkins working in Whitehall, having left his provincial regiment in Northern Ireland behind and now acting as liaison with other Allied forces. The social comedy and grotesque personalities that Powell excels at now take place among a motley assortment of Polish, Belgian and Czech officers, as well as some British high-ups. Perhaps the most shocking of these new characters is the sex-crazed Pamela Flitton, more force of nature than human w. 2 with Nicholas Jenkins working in Whitehall, having left his provincial regiment in Northern Ireland behind and now acting as liaison with other Allied forces. The social comedy and grotesque personalities that Powell excels at now take place among a motley assortment of Polish, Belgian and Czech officers, as well as some British high-ups. Perhaps the most shocking of these new characters is the sex-crazed Pamela Flitton, more force of nature than human w