1. One thing Powell's A Dance To the Music of Time does very well is show the shadow of the First World War cast over the subsequent decades. Particularly worth reading is volume 6, The Kindly Ones (1962).
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2. Most of The Kindly Ones deals with the cusp and start of World War II in 1938/1939 but the long opening section is a flashback to 1914, right before the World War 1.
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3. The narrator, Nick Jenkins, is 10 in 1914, the son of an officer, and tells a visiting general about the military families in the neighborhood.pic.twitter.com/ODWArM8xlJ
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It's a work I've long eyed over but get intimidated by the bulkiness. Is it better/worse/the same as the USA trilogy by Dos Passos?
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Better written I'd say, although dealing with a narrower class (the upper-middle class and nobility). But very funny and readable.
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