Powell's monumental 12-part series traces the lives of a wide variety of characters in London from World War I until the 1960s.

In Hearing Secret Harmonies, the final volume, of the series, A Dance to the Music of Time, Nick and his contemporaries have begun to settle into the quieter stages of later life-even as the rise of the counterculture signals that a new generation is pushing its way to the front. The darkly fascinating young Scorpio Murtlock unexpectedly draws Widmerpool into his orbit, calling to mind occult and cultish doings from earlier decades; close friends...

Books do Furnish a Room is the tenth novel of Anthony Powell's long sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time." It opens in the winter of 1945/46 as Britain settles back into peacetime, though not without annoying rationing and shortages. [Nick] Jenkins has come to his old university for research towards a biography on Robert Burton, but soon first himself involved in the launch of a new literary magazine with distinct leftist tones. --Christopher Culver...

Author of A dance to the music of time. ; A Dance to the Time of Musc, a 12 novel series "is not divisible and should be read in order..A whole panorama of lesbian and male homosexual characters take their places in this 'overall' view of the world" -Grier, Lesbian in Literature, p. 122. ; Discussion of homosexuality in public school, pp. 40-41; discussion of Christopher Sclater Millard, a gay bookseller in London, pp. 52-58. -rk ; See p. 145 on Maurice...

"John Aubrey FRS, (12 March 1626? 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of the collection of short biographical pieces usually referred to as Brief Lives. He was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded (often for the first time) numerous megalithic and other field monuments in southern England, and who is particularly noted as the discoverer of the Avebury henge monument. The Aubrey...