A Dance to the Music of Time : Spring

This volume gathers the first three novels of Powell's twelve-book sequence: A Question of Upbringing, A Buyer's Market, and The Acceptance World. Nicholas Jenkins, the narrator, moves from a late-Edwardian public school through Oxford and into 1920s London society, watching schoolfellows Kenneth Widmerpool, Charles Stringham, and Peter Templer take their first steps in careers, love, and social climbing. Debutante dances, a country-house weekend, and the first adult attachments set the pattern of accidental meetings that will run through later decades. The subject is English class life observed at close range, not a single love plot and not a political chronicle of the interwar years.

Three-quarter bound in dark red buckram with cream paper cover printed with a colour picture. Dark purple slipcase.