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A Question of Upbringing is the opening novel in Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, a twelve-volume cycle spanning much of the 20th century. Published in 1951, it begins the story of a trio of boys — Nicholas Jenkins (the narrator), Charles Stringham, and Peter Templer — who are friends at a nameless school (based upon Powell's public school Eton College ) and then move on to different paths.
- Anthony Dymoke Powell
- 1951
A Question of Upbringing is thus the novel of youth discovering itself, the story of spring and hope mixed with confusion, a time of learning the steps and the music, a time of innocence and curiosity. Powell is the conductor of the symphony, Time is the composer (is this an embrace of fatalism?), and the soloist/narrator is Nicholas Jenkings, a college boy at Eton.
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Dec 1, 2010 · A Question of Upbringing (1951) introduces us to the young Nick Jenkins and his housemates at boarding school in the years just after World War I. Boyhood pranks and visits from relatives bring to life the amusements and longueurs of schooldays even as they reveal characters and traits that will follow Jenkins and his friends through adolescence and beyond: Peter Templer, a rich, passionate womanizer; Charles Stringham, aristocratic and louche; and Kenneth Widmerpool, awkward and unhappy ...
Jul 27, 2020 · A question of upbringing by Powell, Anthony, 1905-2000. Publication date 1991 Topics English literature, 20th century general fiction Publisher London : Mandarin ...
In 1951 Powell published A Question of Upbringing, which was the first of the 12-novel sequence A Dance to the Music of Time. In 1975 he published Hearing Secret Harmonies, which was the last novel of the sequence. Powell wrote Infants of the Spring, which is part of To Keep the Ball Rolling, his memoirs. He also published The Fisher King in 1986.
A Question of Upbringing. This is Walpole House at Eton College, the house where Anthony Powell lived. It is also the model for La Bas’s house, where Nicholas Jenkins, Peter Templer, and Charles Stringham pass their time at “School.”. “The house looked on to other tenement-like structures, experiments in architectural insignificance….
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A Question of Upbringing is the first volume of A Dance to the Music of Time -- recently a successful television series starring Simon Russell Beale. James Purefoy, Alan Bennett, Sir John Gielgud and Claire Skinner.
