{"product_id":"the-kindly-ones","title":"The Kindly Ones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnthony Powell’s universally acclaimed epic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Dance to the Music of Time\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as they were originally published—as twelve individual novels—but with a twenty-first-century twist: they’re available only as e-books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs volume six, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Kindly Ones\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1962), opens, rumblings from Germany recall memories of Nick Jenkins’s boyhood and his father’s service in World War I; it seems clear that all too soon, uniforms will be back in fashion. The looming threat throws the ordinary doings of life into stark relief, as Nick and his friends continue to negotiate the pitfalls of adult life. Moreland’s marriage founders, Peter Templer’s wife—his second—is clearly going mad, and Widmerpool is, disturbingly, gaining prominence in the business world even as he angles for power in the coming conflict. War, with all its deaths and disruptions, is on the way. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician.\"--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eChicago\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTribune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A book which creates a world and explores it in depth, which ponders changing relationships and values, which creates brilliantly living and diverse characters and then watches them grow and change in their milieu. . . . Powell's world is as large and as complex as Proust's.\"--Elizabeth Janeway, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTimes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War. . . . The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience.\"--Naomi Bliven, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The most brilliant and penetrating novelist we have.”--Kingsley Amis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46202884292820,"sku":"","price":13.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/2431\/3812\/files\/71wmKhZP-fL._SL1500.jpg?v=1744104260","url":"https:\/\/bluebooks.ae\/products\/the-kindly-ones","provider":"Blue Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}