Invitation to the Dance: Handbook to Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time Hilary Spurling
A complete guide to Anthony Powell's novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time. The main part of the text comprises a who's who of characters, fictional and factual, from Lord Aberavon to Widmerpool. Three further indexes, with full page references and extensive quotations from the novels, cover the books, paintings and places visited or mentioned in the sequence, and a synopsis of events clarifies various tricky points of chronology.