Published as volume seven in Snow’s 11-volume series Strangers and Brothers, the events of this story actually place it immediately after the action of the introductory novel of the series. The year is 1927 as the story opens, with the… Read More ›
20th century fiction
Analysis of Doris Lessing’s Children of Violence
The five volumes in this series include Martha Quest (1952), A Proper Marriage (1954), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), Landlocked (1965), and The Four-Gated City (1969). Taking the series as a whole, critics rank this work as among the… Read More ›
Analysis of Anthony Powell’s Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant
The fifth of twelve volumes in Powell’s roman-fleuve entitled A Dance to the Music of Time, this novel continues the first-person point-of-view narration of Nicholas Jenkins, a writer, as he experiences the arts scene in London during 1936–37, meeting musicians,… Read More ›
Analysis of Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time
The third of 12 volumes in Powell’s roman-fleuve entitled A Dance to the Music of Time, this novel uses a first-person point of view to continue the narrative of Nicholas Jenkins, a writer, as he completes his transition to adulthood… Read More ›
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