Anthony Powell

Powell, Anthony

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Anthony Powell was born in London in 1905 and was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He worked for a London publisher from 1927 to 1935. and as a film scriptwriter from 1935 to 1936. He has written reviews and literary columns for various newspapers and periodicals and was Literary Editor of Punch from 1952 to 1958. He was commissioned in the Welch Regiment in 1939 and subsequently transferred to the Intelligence Corps where he served as a liaison officer with the Allied Forces. His published works are: *Afternoon Men* (1931), *Venusberg* (1932), *From a View to a Death* (1933), *What's Become of Waring* (1939), *John Aubrey and His Friends* (1948). *Selections from John Aubrey* (1949), *A Question of Upbringing* (1951). *A Buyer's Market* (1952). *The Acceptance World* (1955), *At Lady Molly's* (James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1957), and *Casanova's Chinese Restaurant* (I960). The last five books form the first half of the *Music of Time* sequence. Anthony Powell married Lady Violet Pakenham in 1934 and they had two sons.

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Une question d'éducation
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Venusberg
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A Question of Upbringing
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The Acceptance World
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A Buyer's Market
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Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
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Hearing Secret Harmonies
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The Soldier's Art
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At Lady Molly's (Dance to the Music of Time)
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Books Do Furnish a Room (Dance to the Music of Time)
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The Valley of Bones
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SOME POETS, ARTISTS & 'A REFERENCE FOR MELLORS'
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The fisher king
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A dance to the music of time III
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To keep the ball rolling
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Een kopersmarkt
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A writer's notebook
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Een kwestie van opvoeding
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Hearing Secret Harmonies
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Temporary Kings
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Temporary Kings
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A dance to the music of time
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A Dance to the Music of Time
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Journals
Representative edition published 1995
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