The Kindly Ones

Anthony Powells universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time 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 Dance as they were originally publishedas twelve individual novelsbut with a twenty-first-century twist: theyre available only as e-books. As volume six, The Kindly Ones (1962), opens, rumblings from Germany recall memories of Nick Jenkinss boyhood and his fathers service in World War I; it seems clear that all too soon, uniforms will be back in fashion. The looming threat throws the ordinary doings of life into stark relief, as Nick and his friends continue to negotiate the pitfalls of adult life. Morelands marriage founders, Peter Templers wifehis secondis clearly going mad, and Widmerpool is, disturbingly, gaining prominence in the business world even as he angles for power in the coming conflict. War, with all its deaths and disruptions, is on the way. "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."-- Chicago Tribune "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, New York Times "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, New Yorker The most brilliant and penetrating novelist we have.--Kingsley Amis ** ______________________________ 'he Is, As Proust Was Before Him, The Great Literary Chronicler Of His Culture In His Time.' Guardian A Dance To The Music Of Time Is Universally Acknowledged As One Of The Great Works Of English Literature. Reissued Now In This Definitive Edition, It Stands Ready To Delight And Entrance A New Generation Of Readers. In This Sixth Volume, With Britain On The Brink Of War Yet Again, Nick Jenkins Reflects Back On His Childhood Growing Up In The Shadow Of World War I. Wanting To Follow In His Father’s Footsteps, Nick Sets His Sights On Becoming An Officer In The Army, And Asks His Old School Friend Widmerpool, Who Is Gaining Prominence In The Business World, If He Will Help Him. But Reserves Lists Are Quickly Filling Up With Names, And It’s Not Long Until The Threat Of War Is The One Thing On Everyone’s Mind. ______________________________ These Titles Are Currently Being Reissued. There Is A Chance That You May Receive The Edition With The Classic Cover Instead Of The Cover Displayed Here.