Inspirational Quotes by Anthony Powell (English Novelist)

Anthony Dymoke Powell (1905–2000) was an English novelist. A distinguished writer of social comedy, he is celebrated for his autobiographical and satiric 12-volume series of novels, A Dance to the Music of Time.

Born in London, Powell was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he met several other young writers, including Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene . Powell worked in publishing and journalism before World War II and, by 1936, had published four satirical novels, including Afternoon Men (1931) and Venusberg (1932.)

Powell served during World War II and, after the war, returned to book-reviewing. He wrote a biography of the British natural philosopher John Aubrey (1948) and began the series of light, witty, satirical novels he called A Dance to the Music of Time (12 vols., 1951–75,) starting with A Question of Upbringing (1951) and ending with Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975.) These books span 50 years of British upper-middle-class life and attitudes. An intricate and disciplined interweaving of personal relationships and an extraordinary scope and depth of vision characterize these novels.

Powell later published two novels, O, How the Wheel Becomes It! (1983) and The Fisher King (1986,) and two volumes of criticism, Miscellaneous Verdicts (1990) and Under Review (1992.) His four volumes of autobiography, To Keep the Ball Rolling, were published between 1976 and 1982 and three volumes of Journals between 1995 and 1997.

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