Books Do Furnish a Room [SEP] series
Books Do Furnish a Room
Books Do Furnish a Room is a novel by Anthony Powell, the tenth in the twelve-novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time". It was first published in 1971 and, like the other volumes, remains in print.
The book conveys the atmosphere of post-war austerity in which the characters attempt to resume life before the interruption of the conflict.
Plot summary.
Jenkins returns to his old university library during the vacation in the Winter of 1945–46 to
- "The Soldier's Art" (1966)
- "The Military Philosophers" (1968)
- "Books Do Furnish a Room" (1971)
- "Temporary Kings" (1973)
- "Hearing Secret Harmonies" (1975)
Partial bibliography of other novels, plays, and works:
- "The Barnard Letters" (1928)
- "Afternoon Men" (1931)
- "Venusberg" (1932)
- "From a View to a Death"