Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
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Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears.Page Condition: Slightly yellowed/aged. Markings: Ex-library with usual markings. Binding: Intact, pages firm. Stickers/Labels: Ex-libris
A cornerstone of twentieth-century British fiction, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is the fifth volume in Anthony Powell's monumental twelve-part sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. Set against the bohemian backdrop of London's artistic and musical circles in the years leading up to World War II, the novel chronicles the narrator Nicholas Jenkins's immersion in a world of struggling composers, eccentric artists, and ill-fated marriages. Powell's prose is characterised by its detached irony and elegant wit, capturing the fragile nature of human ambition and romantic entanglement with surgical precision. The narrative masterfully illustrates how friendships are tested and destinies shaped by the gathering shadows of an approaching war, cementing Powell's reputation as the supreme chronicler of English social life in the modern age.
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$7.67Casanova's Chinese Restaurant
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears.Page Condition: Slightly yellowed/aged. Markings: Ex-library with usual markings. Binding: Intact, pages firm. Stickers/Labels: Ex-libris
A cornerstone of twentieth-century British fiction, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is the fifth volume in Anthony Powell's monumental twelve-part sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. Set against the bohemian backdrop of London's artistic and musical circles in the years leading up to World War II, the novel chronicles the narrator Nicholas Jenkins's immersion in a world of struggling composers, eccentric artists, and ill-fated marriages. Powell's prose is characterised by its detached irony and elegant wit, capturing the fragile nature of human ambition and romantic entanglement with surgical precision. The narrative masterfully illustrates how friendships are tested and destinies shaped by the gathering shadows of an approaching war, cementing Powell's reputation as the supreme chronicler of English social life in the modern age.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears.Page Condition: Slightly yellowed/aged. Markings: Ex-library with usual markings. Binding: Intact, pages firm. Stickers/Labels: Ex-libris
A cornerstone of twentieth-century British fiction, Casanova's Chinese Restaurant is the fifth volume in Anthony Powell's monumental twelve-part sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time. Set against the bohemian backdrop of London's artistic and musical circles in the years leading up to World War II, the novel chronicles the narrator Nicholas Jenkins's immersion in a world of struggling composers, eccentric artists, and ill-fated marriages. Powell's prose is characterised by its detached irony and elegant wit, capturing the fragile nature of human ambition and romantic entanglement with surgical precision. The narrative masterfully illustrates how friendships are tested and destinies shaped by the gathering shadows of an approaching war, cementing Powell's reputation as the supreme chronicler of English social life in the modern age.
