# Invitation To The Dance

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- Authors: [Hilary Spurling](https://www.bookquiver.com/hilary-spurling)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2005-05-05

## Description

A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary, Invitation to the Dance contains extensive Character, Book, Painting and Place indices, creating a magnificent database of Powell's imagination and England's cultural landscape. This is a masterpiece of 'extreme ingenuity' detailing over four hundred characters and one million words of Powell's lively fifty-year dance of fiction and fact. 'Hilary Spurling's exhaustive analysis of the novel's characters supplies a master-key for the reader of Anthony Powell.

## Editions

### Invitation To The Dance

- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9948-436-3
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2005-05-05
- Language: en_GB