Invitation To The Dance

A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell''s 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary, Invitation to the Dance contains extensive Character, Book, Painting and Place indices, creating a magnificent database of Powell''s imagination and England''s cultural landscape. This is a masterpiece of ''extreme ingenuity'' detailing over four hundred characters and one million words of Powell''s lively fifty-year dance of fiction and fact. ''Hilary Spurling''s exhaustive analysis of the novel''s characters supplies a master-key for the reader of Anthony Powell.