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This first volume of Anthony Powell's "Dance to the Music of Time" covers the schooldays and university career of the protagonist, Nick Jenkins. We also meet a variety of intersting characters - Charles Stringham, Peter Templer, Kenneth Widmerpool, Sillery, Quiggin et al. . There is much comedy, some of it in the style of P.G. Wodehouse, for example, the "incident involving Stripling and Farebrother's hat box and the "Braddock alias Thorne" joke played on housemaster Le Bas. Powell's amusing descriptive powers are impressive (e.g. his description of the taxi, p. 122). There is also a wistful element in the passing of time and the gradual loss of old friends and acquaintances.
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