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Anthony Powell�s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time 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 Dance as they were originally published�as twelve individual novels�but with a twenty-first-century twist: they�re available only as e-books. Casanova�s Chinese Restaurant (1960), the fifth book, finds Nick marrying Isobel Tolland and launching happily into family life�including his new role as brother-in-law to Isobel�s many idiosyncratic siblings. But even as Nick�s life is settling down, those of his friends are full of drama and heartache: his best friend, Hugh Moreland, is risking his marriage on a hopeless affair, while Charles Stringham has nearly destroyed himself with drink. Full of Powell�s typically sharp observations about life and love, Casanova�s Chinese Restaurant offers all the rewards and frustrations, pleasures and regrets of one�s thirties. "Anthony Powell is the best living English novelist by far. His admirers are addicts, let us face it, held in thrall by a magician."�Chicago Tribune "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, New York Times "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, New Yorker �The most brilliant and penetrating novelist we have.��Kingsley Amis (less)

Anthony Powell�s universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time 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 Dance as they were (…more)