A Dance to the Music of Time

A Dance to the Music of Time is a 12-volume cycle of novels by Anthony Powell inspired by the painting of the same name by Nicolas Poussin and published between 1951 and 1975 to critical acclaim. The story is an often comic examination of movements and manners, power and passivity in English political, cultural and military life in the mid-20th century. • A Question of Upbringing (1951) • A Buyer's Market (1952) • The Acceptance World (1955) • At Lady Molly's (1957) • Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (1960) • The Kindly Ones (1962) • The Valley of Bones (1964) • The Soldier's Art (1966) • The Military Philosophers (1968) • Books Do Furnish a Room (1971) • Temporary Kings (1973) • Hearing Secret Harmonies (1975)