Anthony Powell

Anthony Powell’s Followers (323)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Anthony Powell


Born
in Westminster, London, England, The United Kingdom
December 21, 1905

Died
March 28, 2000

Genre

Influences


People best know British writer Anthony Dymoke Powell for A Dance to the Music of Time , a cycle of 12 satirical novels from 1951 to 1975.

This Englishman published his volumes of work. Television and radio dramatizations subjected major work of Powell in print continuously. In 2008, The Times newspaper named Powell among their list of "the fifty greatest British writers since 1945."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony...
...more

Average rating: 4.0 · 27,429 ratings · 2,991 reviews · 113 distinct worksSimilar authors
A Dance to the Music of Tim...

3.94 avg rating — 4,750 ratings — published 1955 — 43 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
A Question of Upbringing (A...

3.72 avg rating — 4,767 ratings — published 1951 — 63 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
A Dance to the Music of Tim...

4.29 avg rating — 1,718 ratings — published 1962 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
A Dance to the Music of Tim...

4.27 avg rating — 1,704 ratings — published 1968 — 37 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
A Dance to the Music of Tim...

4.23 avg rating — 1,543 ratings — published 1975 — 26 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
A Buyer's Market (A Dance t...

3.85 avg rating — 1,531 ratings — published 1952 — 51 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Acceptance World (A Dan...

4.07 avg rating — 1,303 ratings — published 1955 — 50 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
At Lady Molly's (A Dance to...

4.11 avg rating — 1,143 ratings — published 1957 — 45 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
Casanova's Chinese Restaura...

4.10 avg rating — 1,084 ratings — published 1960 — 52 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Kindly Ones (A Dance to...

4.24 avg rating — 977 ratings — published 1962 — 40 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
More books by Anthony Powell…
A Question of Upbringing A Buyer's Market The Acceptance World At Lady Molly's Casanova's Chinese Restaurant The Kindly Ones The Valley of Bones
(12 books)
by
4.02 avg rating — 25,790 ratings

Infants of the Spring: The ... Messengers of Day Faces in My Time The Strangers All Are Gone:...
(4 books)
by
3.81 avg rating — 90 ratings

JOURNALS 1982 - 1986 Journals, 1990-1992 Journals 1987-1989
(3 books)
by
3.72 avg rating — 43 ratings

Related News

Kazuo Ishiguro insists he’s an optimist about technology.  “I'm not one of these people who thinks it's going to come and destroy us,” he...
433 likes · 37 comments
Quotes by Anthony Powell  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“I get a warm feeling among my books.”
Anthony Powell

“Books do furnish a room.”
Anthony Powell, Dance to the Music of Time

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”
Anthony Powell

Polls

Which book would you like to read in 2025 for our Big-Book Study?

 
  75 votes, 57.3%

 
  19 votes, 14.5%

The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
(4 volumes, 1774 pages)
 
  16 votes, 12.2%

 
  14 votes, 10.7%

Pilgrimage 1 (Pilgrimage, #1-3) by Dorothy M. Richardson
Pilgrimage 1 by Dorothy M. Richardson
(13 volumes, around 2118 pages)
 
  7 votes, 5.3%

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
The Next Best Boo...: Authors to Read 20 394 Jan 17, 2010 05:33PM  
North Liberty Rea...: Jenni's 2010 Challenges and Read Books 135 36 Jan 02, 2011 03:20PM  
The Seasonal Read...: This topic has been closed to new comments. Winter Challenge 2010-2011 Completed Tasks (do not delete any posts) 2578 1095 Feb 28, 2011 09:05PM  
Reading with Style: This topic has been closed to new comments. WI 10-11 RwS Completed Tasks - Winter 704 508 Mar 01, 2011 09:19AM  
Around the World: Anne's Books 180 301 Jan 02, 2012 08:31AM  
Romance Readers R...: 2011 Create-Your-Own Reading Challenge 245 554 Feb 13, 2012 01:09PM