Books Do Furnish a Room
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Books Do Furnish a Room is a novel by British author Anthony Powell, part of his multi-volume sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time," exploring post–World War II literary and social life in England.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Books Do Furnish a Room canonical | 2 |
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | novel ⓘ |
| author | Anthony Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| explores |
postwar literary circles in London
ⓘ
shifts in class and status after World War II ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Kenneth Widmerpool
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pamela Widmerpool NERFINISHED ⓘ X. Trapnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedByWork | Temporary Kings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followsWork | The Military Philosophers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
ⓘ
social novel ⓘ |
| hasCentralMotif |
books
ⓘ
publishing ⓘ writing ⓘ |
| hasTitleOrigin | quotation about books furnishing a room ⓘ |
| hasWorkType | sequence novel ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literarySeriesSegment | fourth movement of A Dance to the Music of Time ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
ironic
ⓘ
observational ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Nicholas Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| narrator | Nicholas Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | 20th-century British literature ⓘ |
| partOfSeries | A Dance to the Music of Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonist | Nicholas Jenkins NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDecade | 1970s ⓘ |
| publisher | Heinemann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sequencePosition | first novel in the postwar movement of the sequence ⓘ |
| seriesNumber | 10 ⓘ |
| settingCountry | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | post–World War II ⓘ |
| theme |
friendship
ⓘ
literary life ⓘ memory ⓘ postwar society ⓘ publishing industry ⓘ social change ⓘ |
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