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The Kindly Ones
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The Kindly Ones
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The sixth volume of Powell's twelve volume novel A Dance to the Music of Time and the last volume of the second trilogy, published in 1962. Like the other volumes in the second trilogy, Kindly Ones begins with a flashback (a device employed in these three novels only) to the earliest point yet addressed in the Dance series, the years 1913 - 1914 at Jenkins' childhood home, Stonehurst, near Aldershot where Jenkins' father's battalion is stationed. Through this flashback we learn more about the introverted nature of Jenkins' parents (about whom we have still heard remarkably little in the series). The pre-WWI period described in the flashback (which ends with the outbreak of war in 1914) is a lead-in to the period covered in the remainder of Kindly Ones, that immediately prior to the outbreak of WWII. When WWII breaks out near the end of the novel, Jenkins tries through contacts with General Conyers and Widmerpool to convert his position in the reserves to that of a commissioned officer in the army, which he eventually accomplishes with the assistance of Ted Jeavons' brother. The cover depicts Sir Magnus Donners, drawn by Mark "Marc" Boxer (1931 - 1988). |
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A note on cover art:"When Penguin had paperback rights to Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time, the covers used drawings by Osbert Lancaster. Later, when Powell moved publishers [to Fontana Books], there were drawings by Marc [Mark] Boxer. Lancaster’s are less intrusive because they show places as much as people. Boxer’s comic impersonations put his idea of the characters in the way of you finding your own." (London Review of Books, "At the V & A") |
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