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... Powell's other early novels it looks forward to The Music of Time . During the 1940s Powell published no more novels , but he wrote a life of John Aubrey and edited a selection from Aubrey's Brief Lives . The interest in Aubrey is ...
... Powell's other early novels it looks forward to The Music of Time . During the 1940s Powell published no more novels , but he wrote a life of John Aubrey and edited a selection from Aubrey's Brief Lives . The interest in Aubrey is ...
Page 124
... Powell is in the mainstream of English social comedy , where our perception of the world requires a perpetual mild , ironic readjustment . Jane Austen lies not excessively far be- hind The Music of Time . Another American critic , James ...
... Powell is in the mainstream of English social comedy , where our perception of the world requires a perpetual mild , ironic readjustment . Jane Austen lies not excessively far be- hind The Music of Time . Another American critic , James ...
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... Powell had to face formidable problems in concluding the sequence . The attitude to time inevitably changes as the events presented come closer to the moment of writing . For most of A Dance to the Music of Time Nicholas describes what ...
... Powell had to face formidable problems in concluding the sequence . The attitude to time inevitably changes as the events presented come closer to the moment of writing . For most of A Dance to the Music of Time Nicholas describes what ...
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