Anthony Powell (1905-2000) was an English author. He is best known for his Dance to the Music of Time series. Aside from novels, he also wrote, memoirs, plays, poetry, and essays on writing. His work has been adapted to television and radio. He was named one of the Greatest British Writers Since 1945 by The Times newspaper in 2008.

Anthony Powell made his debut as a novelist in 1931 with the standalone title Afternoon Men. Below is a list of Anthony Powell’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Dance To The Music Of Time Books

A Question of Upbringing (1951)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Buyer's Market (1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Acceptance World (1955)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
At Lady Molly's (1957)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Kindly Ones (1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Valley of Bones (1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Soldier's Art (1966)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Military Philosophers (1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Books Do Furnish a Room (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Temporary Kings (1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Dance to the Music of Time (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of To Keep The Ball Rolling: The Memoirs Of Books

Infants of the Spring (1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Messengers of Day (1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Faces in My Time (1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Strangers All Are Gone (1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
To Keep the Ball Rolling (1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Afternoon Men (1931)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Venusberg (1932)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
From a View to a Death (1933)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Agents and Patients (1936)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
What's Become of Waring (1939)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
O, How the Wheel Becomes It! (1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fisher King (1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Plays

The Garden God & The Rest I'll Whistle (1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Chapbooks

Reference For Mellors (1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

John Aubrey and His Friends (1948)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Empire Revisited (1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Miscellaneous Verdicts (1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Under Review (1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Journals, 1982-86 (1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Journals, 1987-89 (1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Journals, 1990-1992 (1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Writer's Notebook (2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Some Poets, Artists & 'A Reference for Mellors' (2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anthony Powell on Wine (2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Anthologies

Best for Winter(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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Anthony Powell Synopsis: In A Question of Upbringing by Anthony Powell (book 1 of the Dance to the Music of Time series), Nick Jenkins is introduced to what it’s like living at a boarding school in the 1920s, alongside his friends: Peter Templer, Charles Stringham, and Kenneth Widmerpool. Though their days are filled with visits from relatives and typical pranks, usually at the expense of their housemaster Le Bas, a disastrous trip in Templer’s car threatens their new friendship. As the school year nears its conclusion, the young men are faced with the prospects of adulthood, and with finding their place in the world.

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