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What’s Become of Waring
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ISBN-13:
9780226137186
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
26.03.2014
Seiten:
240
Autor:
Anthony Powell
Gewicht:
325 g
Format:
216x139x32 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Anthony Powell (1905-2000) was an English novelist best known for A Dance to the Music of Time, which was published in twelve volumes between 1951 and 1975. He also wrote seven other novels, a biography of John Aubrey, two plays, and three volumes of collected reviews and essays, as well as a four-volume autobiography, an abridged version of which, To Keep the Ball Rolling, is available from the University of Chicago Press.
WHAT S BECOME OF WARING (1939) satirizes a small independent publisher in London run by two brothers who don t get along. It s told from the point of view of a young man who reads manuscripts for them and assists the younger brother in undermining the elder s authority. Here Powell brilliantly pokes fun, not just at certain types, but at timeless human failings: self-satisfaction, pride, delusion, arrogance, lust, sloth, greed, and cowardice. The action zooms around from London homes to the South of France, and back. This is the funniest of Powell s early novels, involving a missing best-selling author, wild coincidences, mistaken identity, romance, whacky surprises and a satisfying close."