{"product_id":"9780099472520-temporary-kings","title":"Temporary Kings","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A Dance to the Music of Time' is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘He is, as Proust was before him, the great chronicler of his culture in his time.’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘The elegance of the style draws you in like incense to reverie.’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Gives pattern to the spectacle of human existence.’ \u003c\/b\u003eLouisa Young\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A Dance to the Music of Time’ is universally acknowledged as one of the great works of English literature. Now in the first volume’s 75th anniversary year, this twelve-volume series is ready to delight and entrance a new generation of readers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this eleventh volume, Nick Jenkins, persuaded by his old friend Mark Members, attends a literary conference in Venice. Meanwhile in London, his old school friend, Widmerpool, continues to climb the social ranks, this time to the status of Life Peer. However, his position in power is under threat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWidmerpool finds himself the subject of whispered accusations of espionage and his wife, Pamela, former lover of the dead writer X. Trapnel, also becomes the centre of attention as the mystery around the writer continues to draw ghoulish interest from readers and academics alike. Even surrounded by the beautiful vistas of Venice, Nick cannot escape his friends’ turbulent lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for 'A Dance to the Music of Time’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A world as rich as Joyce's on the one hand and P. G. Wodehouse’s on the other.’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘One of the great novel-sequences in English Literature.’ \u003cb\u003eWilliam Boyd\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘One of the greatest pleasures of my reading life.’ \u003cb\u003eMichael Palin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘An epic, elegant masterpiece.’\u003cb\u003e Lauren Groff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A joyous experience.’ \u003cb\u003eRoddy Doyle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘An intricately wrought work of art.’ \u003cb\u003eJohn Banville\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The finest long comic novel that England has produced.’ \u003cb\u003eAnthony Burgess\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Mr Powell’s imagination is inexhaustible.’ \u003cb\u003eEvelyn Waugh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘One of English fiction’s few twentieth-century masterpieces.’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘There is no other novelist whose work gives so much or such consistent pleasure.’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449699545462,"sku":"9780099472520","price":8.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32163040.jpg?v=1760446501","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780099472520-temporary-kings","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}