1935, London: Anthony Powell is honing the edge of his humor on psychoanalysis and the film industry.Two young London charlatans, an amateur Freudian analyst and an bully with “connections with the fi
Powell’s first novel (1931), a satire of London lads getting into romantic trouble, drinking too much and living up to their reputation as a ?lost generation”. Imagine Bright Lights, Big City set in L
FROM A VIEW TO A DEATH (1933) is set at a dilapidated English country estate. It brings together a miscellany of country and city types: spoiled, shy Mary Passenger, whose father hopes she will marry
Aboard the Alecto, prolific romance author Valentine Beals ruminates on the ship's most seemingly incongruous couple: a graceful, ethereal, virginal dancer named Barberina Rookwood and her lover, Saul
Powell tells the story in O, How the Wheel Becomes It! of a British literary celebrity who is not an important writer, is no great personality, and certainly is no cause for celebration of the human s
