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"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 into money to help support Passenger Court; ambitious Zouch, who imagines himself an Ubermensch; and Major Fosdick, secretly cross-dressing when not out riding.(V. S. Pritchett describes the book as featuring the undesirable artist among the speechless fox hunters. ) Powell wrote this when he was 27 years old; he mocks with gusto the prejudices and mindlessness of English landed gentry. But as the story moves along, suffering adds humanity to his caricatures, even the objectionable country squire.
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Anthony Powell (1905-2000) was an English novelist best known for
A Dance to the Music of Time, which was published in twelve volumes between 1951 and 1975. He also wrote seven other novels, a biography of John Aubrey, two plays, and three volumes of collected reviews and essays, as well as a four-volume autobiography, an abridged version of which,
To Keep the Ball Rolling, is available from the University of Chicago Press.
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Takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins.
