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praise for anthony powell and Afternoon Men “This is good entertainment, for Mr. Powell has a rich fund of irony and humour to support his extravagance and a hu- morous veracity of observation.” —Times Literary Supplement “Mr. Powell writes cleverly: his dialogue strikes the high and often mad note of integrity that his characters demand.” —New York Times (Early City Edition) “What makes Powell’s work so exciting is the ability to cre- ate truth, emotional, evocative, revealing . so that reading Powell is like living someone else’s life, inextricably entan- gled with one’s own.” —elizabeth janeway, New York Times “Anthony Powell is our foremost comic writer.” —v. s. pritchett “I would rather read Mr. Powel than any English novelist now writing.” —kingsley amis books by ANTHONY POWELL A Dance to the Music of Time, First Movement (including the following three novels) A Question of Upbringing A Buyer’s Market The Acceptance World A Dance to the Music of Time, Second Movement (including the following three novels) At Lady Molly’s Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant The Kindly Ones A Dance to the Music of Time, Third Movement (including the following three novels) The Valley of Bones The Soldier’s Art The Military Philosophers A Dance to the Music of Time, Fourth Movement (including the following three novels) Books Do Furnish a Room Temporary Kings Hearing Secret Harmonies other novels Afternoon Men Venusberg From a View to a Death Agents and Patients The Fisher King O, How the Wheel Becomes It! What’s Become of Waring other works To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell Volume I: Infants of the Spring Volume II: Messengers of Day Volume III: Faces in My Time Volume IV: The Strangers Are All Gone John Aubrey and His Friends Brief Lives: And Other Selected Writings of John Aubrey Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers Under Review: Further Writings on Writers, 1946–1990 plays The Garden God The Rest I’ll Whistle AFTERNOON MEN A Novel by Anthony Powell With a new Foreword by Ed Park the university of chicago press The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 Copyright © 1931 by Anthony Powell Foreword © 2015 by Ed Park All rights reserved Originally published in 1931 University of Chicago Press edition 2015 Printed in the United States of America 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 1 2 3 4 5 isbn- 13: 978-0-226-18689-4 (paper) isbn- 13: 978-0-226-18692-4 (e- book) doi: 10.7208/ chicago/ 9780226186924.001.0001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Powell, Anthony, 1905–2000, author. Afternoon men / by Anthony Powell ; with a new foreword by Ed Park. pages cm isbn 978-0-226-18689-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-226-18692-4 (e-book) I. Title. PR6031.O74A73 2015 823′.912—dc23 2014015119 o This paper meets the requirements of ansi/ niso z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper)..

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Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time with Wesley Stace 12 monthly sessions on Zoom Tuesdays, March 9, 2021 – February 8, 2022 6:00–8:00 p.m Reading all twelve novels of Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time over one year with novelist and musician Wesley Stace. Participants will receive the Zoom link before the first session. A Dance to the Music of Time by Nicholas Poussin (c.1635) A Dance to the Music of Time, a twelve-volume set of novels by Anthony Powell, was published between 1951 and 1975. Powell’s own life (1905-2000) spanned the 20th Century and his masterpiece reflects this, examining English political, cultural and military life from 1920. Clive James thought Dance - taken as a whole - the best modern novel since Ulysses. Time magazine included the novel in its 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The editors of the Modern Library ranked the work as 43rd-greatest English-language novel of the 20th century, and the BBC ranked the series 36th on its list of the 100 greatest British novels. Narrated by Powell’s stand-in, writer Nicholas Jenkins, Dance is a panoramic portrait of a society that was vanishing before Powell's eyes, and of which he was one of the last writing representatives. The arc takes us from Jenkins’ schooldays - where he meets the colourful central characters whose lives will weave in and out of his own - to his final days as a literary grandee. By the finale, Widmerpool, once the butt of their schoolboy jokes, has become a memorable villain: the banality of evil incarnate.
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