What’s Become of Waring

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"What’s Become of Waring" is a satirical novel by Anthony Powell that explores literary celebrity, publishing, and social pretensions in interwar London.

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instanceOf novel
satirical novel
author Anthony Powell NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
followedBy A Question of Upbringing NERFINISHED
genre comic novel
satire
hasFictionalCharacter Beryl Tolland NERFINISHED
J. G. Tolland NERFINISHED
Roberta Payne NERFINISHED
T. T. Waring NERFINISHED
hasISBN 9780226677181
hasMotif gossip
mystery surrounding an author
publishing house politics
social climbing
hasPageCount approx. 320
hasReissue Arrow Books edition NERFINISHED
University of Chicago Press edition NERFINISHED
hasStyle dry wit
understated comedy
hasSubject book publishing
literary hoaxes
middle-class society
isInCanonOf Anthony Powell’s pre–Dance novels
language English
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement British modernism NERFINISHED
literaryPeriod interwar period
mainTheme authorship
literary celebrity
publishing industry
reputation
social pretension
narrativePerspective first-person narration
notableFor depiction of interwar London society
satire of the literary world
partOf Anthony Powell early novels
precededBy The Happy Captive NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1939
publisher Cassell NERFINISHED
settingLocation London, England
surface form: London
settingTime interwar London NERFINISHED
tone comic
ironic

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Anthony Powell notableWork What’s Become of Waring