Today is the birthday of the English Proust, Anthony Powell (books by this author), born in Westminster, England (1932). Powell is famous for having written what is often called the longest work of fiction in the English language, the 12-volume novel A Dance to the Music of Time (1951-1975).
Powell's masterwork, usually just referred to as Dance, takes a million words to create a panoramic picture of upper-class English life that spans more than half a century. He published the first volume, A Question of Upbringing, in 1951, with a new book in the sequence appearing about every two years.
Perhaps because reading Dance is a massive undertaking, it is less known among readers than Powell's final two novels, O, How the Wheel Becomes It! (1983) and The Fisher King (1986).
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