Dance To The Music Of Time Volume 1 by Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. Volume 1 contains the first three novels in the sequence: "A Question of Upbringing"; "A Buyer's Market"; and "The Acceptance World".