To Keep The Ball Rolling

To Keep The Ball Rolling

**The abridged memoirs of Anthony Powell, with a new introduction from Louisa Young**''Powell can offer many of the rewards of comic creation we find in a Dickens or a Jane Austen'' TLS Anthony Powell earned a reputation as a literary giant within the generation of Waugh, Orwell and Greene, best known for......
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<p><b><i>**The abridged memoirs of Anthony Powell, with a new introduction from Louisa Young**</i></b><br><br>''Powell can offer many of the rewards of comic creation we find in a Dickens or a Jane Austen'' <b><i>TLS</i></b> <br><br><b>Anthony Powell earned a reputation as a literary giant within the generation of Waugh, Orwell and Greene, best known for his twelve-volume work <i>A Dance to the Music of Time</i>.</b><br><br>These memoirs reveal Powell - the man and author - providing an insider''s view of the British literary scene and social elite from the 1920s to the 1980s. In these pages, Powell observes the obscenity trial sparked by<i> Lady Chatterley''s Lover, </i>and Shirley Temple''s libel suit after Graham Greene reviewed <i>Wee Willie Winkie </i>with ''more than his usual verve''. Throughout, Powell paints vivid, witty and superbly written portraits of his contemporaries, other authors including Kingsley Amis, V.S. Naipaul, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf.<br><br><b>Featuring an illuminating new introduction by Louisa Young, TO KEEP THE BALL ROLLING is the abridged version of Anthony Powell''s four volumes of memoir, first published between 1976 and 1982.</b></p>

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