The second novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time

Kindly Ones

POWELL, ANTHONY

Literature & Fiction

Flamingo Agencies Ltd.

A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.The novels follow Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool and others, as they negotiate the intellectual, cultural and social hurdles that stand between them and the “Acceptance World.”

The Soldier's Art (A Dance to the Music of Time: Volume 8)

Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. As Alfred Kazin later wrote, "Wilson was an original, an extraordinary literary artist . . . He could turn any literary subject back into the personal drama it had been for the writer."

Axels Castle

WILSON, EDMUND

French

Politics & Social Sciences

ZELDIN, Théodore

Anthropology

Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay draws on Simone de Beauvoir's relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre and the affair that almost destroyed it. It digs deep into the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon to fall. Although Francoise considers her relationship with Pierre an open one, she falls prey to jealousy when the gamine Xaviere catches his attention. The moody young woman from the countryside pries her way between Francoise and Pierre, playing up to each one and deviously pulling them apart, until the only way out of the triangle is destruction.

She Came to Stay

Simone De Beauvoir

La forja, primer volumen de la trilogía La forja de un rebelde, narra la niñez y juventud del protagonista hasta el año 1914. Junto a las vivencias de Arturo, la ciudad de Madrid tiene una presencia más que notable. Este vive con su madre en una buhardilla cercana a la Plaza de Oriente, estudia en el Instituto de San Isidro, asiste a la iglesia de Santiago y al cine Callao, juega en la calle Lepanto y se mueve, comprando libros, descansando o divirtiéndose por el Rastro, el Campo del Moro, la Casa de Campo,´el rio Manzanares o la calle de Alcalá. En ese entorno, perfectamente definido y recreado con la fuerza de un Baroja, empiezan a entreverse las divisiones sociales que estallarán más tarde. La propia familia del protagonista se divide por una herencia. Arturo encuentra sus primeros trabajos y tiene sus primeros enfrentamientos reivindicativos con los jefes. Es la forja de un futuro rebelde.

Forge the Forging of a Rebel

Barea, Arturo

Julia has left home. She has gone to Italy. She has left her lover, her job, her flat, the closely knit group of friends who meant so much to her. Why? And the motley group of ex-pats she finds in Verona, the Oxbridge brigade, the revolutionary Scot, the cool Canadian, the feminist Flossy - what are they doing here. Why do they find it so impossible to return home, as if their very identity has turned out to be such a trap? Centred around a love story full of twists, turns and revelations, "Home Thoughts" explores a world of lost directions, wavering commitments and misplaced ambitions as Julia's adventurous departure confronts her more mercilessly than ever with the problem of what on earth she is to do with her life. Tim Parks is the author of two prize winning novels, "Tongues of Flame" - winner of the Somerset Maugham and of the Betty Trask Award and "Loving Roger" - winner of the John Llewellyhn Rhys Memorial Award. He lives in Italy and works as a translator and teacher.

Home Thoughts

PARKS,Tim

The second novel of actress and playwright Sharman Macdonald who was awarded the 1984 Standard Award for the most promising playwright for her play "When I Was A Girl I Used To Scream And Shout". Her first novel was "The Beast".

Night Night

Sharman MacDonald

Light

Monet in his garden at Giverny is the subject of this book. The author describes the changing light, the intensifying, somnolent heat of a summer's day, and its sinking back into the cool quiet of dusk. Other works by the author include "Winter Journey" "Patriarchial Attitudes" and "The Tenancy".

FIGES, Eva

Contemporary

The story of a girl in disgrace working out her probation on the shores of Lake Geneva.

Hotel Du Lac

BROOKNER, ANITA

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Flamingo Agencies Ltd. publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Flamingo Agencies Ltd.