The Acceptance World is the third book of Anthony Powell's twelve novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time.[1] Nick Jenkins continues the narration of his life and encounters with friends and acquaintances in London, between 1931 and 1933.[2] In an analysis of Powell's absorbing interest in literary and visual art Kerry McSweeney highlights his use of a reference to Joseph Conrad in a virtuoso description of a private hotel in Bayswater. [3]
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Anthony Powell |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | James Broom-Lynne |
| Language | English |
| Series | A Dance to the Music of Time |
| Publisher | Heinemann |
Publication date | 1955 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 214 |
| Preceded by | A Buyer's Market |
| Followed by | At Lady Molly's |
In his overview of Powell's novels, Understanding Anthony Powell, Nicholas Birns concludes, “The world in which Jenkins ‘seemed to find himself’ at the end of The Acceptance World is poised in an almost exact balance between satisfaction and sorrow.” [4]
The novel is dedicated to British portrait and landscape painter Adrian Daintrey.[5]
References
edit- ^ The Acceptance World. Kirkus. (Feb. 1, 1956).
- ^ Spurling, Hilary. (1978). Invitation to the Dance: A Guide to Anthony Powell’s Dance to the Music of Time.1978. Boston: Little, Brown.
- ^ McSweeney, Kerry. “The Silver-Grey Discourse of The Music of Time.” English studies in Canada 18.1 (1992): 43-58.
- ^ Birns, Nicholas (2004). Understanding Anthony Powell, University of South Carolina Press, p.214, p.121
- ^ Jay, Mike. (2013) "Who Were the Dedicatees of Powell’s Works?" The Anthony Powell Society Newsletter.50 (spring): 9-10.