{"product_id":"9780226677439","title":"Books Do Furnish a Room: Book 10 of A Dance to the Music of Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic \u003ci\u003eA Dance to the Music of Time\u003c\/i\u003e offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of \u003ci\u003eDance\u003c\/i\u003e as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with a twenty-first-century twist: they’re available only as e-books.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The tenth volume, \u003ci\u003eBooks Do Furnish a Room\u003c\/i\u003e (1971), finds Nick Jenkins and his circle beginning to re-establish their lives and careers in the wake of the war. Nick dives into work on a study of Robert Burton; Widmerpool grapples with the increasingly difficult and cruel Pamela Flitton—now his wife; and we are introduced to the series’ next great character, the dissolute Bohemian novelist X. Trapnel, a man who exudes in equal measure mystery, talent, and an air of self-destruction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's.\"--Elizabeth Janeway, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience.\"--Naomi Bliven, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The most brilliant and penetrating novelist we have.”--Kingsley Amis\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120271278320,"sku":"9780226677439","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226677439_p0.jpg?v=1763675217","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226677439","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}