San Antonio College Library

"Suggesting that the literary world is just beginning to realize the extent of Anthony Powell's achievements, Nicholas Birns provides a fresh examination of the British writer's career and growing reputation in this introduction to his work. Birns takes a global view of Powell's corpus, situating his works in context and explaining his place among Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, and Henry Green, in the second generation of British modernists. Birns adds...

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...