A Dance to the Music of Time
British novelist, 1905–2000.
A Dance to the Music of Time is a 1951 novel by Anthony Powell.
On 5 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Anthony Powell
- First published
- 1951
- Length
- 736 pages (UK paperback)
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Class and society, Satire
Is A Dance to the Music of Time worth reading?
5 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library) and 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library, 1998) | No. 43 | See the list |
| 100 novels everyone should read (The Telegraph, 2009) | No. 32 | See the list |
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | Listed | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 100 | See the list |
| The 100 greatest British novels (BBC Culture, 2015) | No. 36 | See the list |
Best edition of A Dance to the Music of Time
The edition we link to is the Arrow paperback (1997), 736 pages.
- Publisher
- Arrow (paperback, 1997)
- Pages
- 736
- ISBN
- 9780099445470
How critics and readers rate A Dance to the Music of Time
Critics rate it most highly: it earned 38% of the points available on critics' lists, against 15% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like A Dance to the Music of Time
If you liked A Dance to the Music of Time, try On the Road, Animal Farm or All the King's Men.
