Journal Entry 1 by goatgrrl from New Westminster, British Columbia Canada on Sunday, July 23, 2006

The twelfth and last volume of Powell's twelve volume novel A Dance to the Music of Time, published in 1975. It's 1969 - 1970, narrator Nick Jenkins is living with his wife Isobel in the country, near a group of standing stones known as Devil's Fingers. Many of the series' original characters have passed on, but those who were children in previous volumes (Fiona Cutts, the Quiggin twins) have become young adults.

This hardcover volume purchased at Pulp Fiction for $10.

The series:

First Trilogy

1. A Question of Upbringing (1951)
2. A Buyer's Market (1952)
3. The Acceptance World (1955)
   

   Second Trilogy

4. At Lady Molly's (1957)
5. Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960)
6. The Kindly Ones (1962)
   

   Third Trilogy

7. The Valley of Bones (1964)
8. The Soldier's Art (1966)
9. The Military Philosophers (1968)
   

   Final Trilogy

10. Books Do Furnish a Room (1971)
11. Temporary Kings (1973)
12. Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975)

Journal Entry 2 by goatgrrl from New Westminster, British Columbia Canada on Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Links:

• Wikipedia write-up on Anthony Powell
• a long article and obituary about Powell and the Dance series in Salon
• a synopsis of A Dance to the Music of Time
• a website dedicated to A Dance by a class at Phillips Academy, Andover
• another Dance website by someone at Oberlin
• Models for Characters in A Dance (courtesy of the Anthony Powell Society)
  
• a 1978 interview with Anthony Powell in The Paris Review
• exhibit hand-out distributed by the Wallace Collection at its 2005 exhibit "Dancing to the Music of Time"

Articles Online:

• "Painting Time", a 2005 article in the Times Literary Supplement
• "Absent America", an article on A Dance in Reason Online
  
• "At the Wallace Collection", a 2006 article in the London Review of Books
• "Anthony Powell", Powell's March 2000 obituary in the Guardian
  
• "Anthony Powell at the TLS", a January 2006 article in the Times Literary Supplement
  

Journal Entry 3 by goatgrrl at Starbucks - Royal Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Released 4 yrs ago (3/6/2007 UTC) at Starbucks - Royal Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada

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I'll be leaving this book in the newspaper rack at Starbucks around 8:30 am today. Best wishes and happy reading to whomever finds it.