A Question of Upbringing

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A Question of Upbringing is the first novel in Anthony Powell’s multi-volume sequence A Dance to the Music of Time, introducing its narrator and themes of memory, social change, and English upper-class life.

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instanceOf novel
author Anthony Powell NERFINISHED
basedOn Anthony Powell’s experiences of English upper-class society
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
featuresCharacter Charles Stringham NERFINISHED
Kenneth Widmerpool NERFINISHED
Nicholas Jenkins NERFINISHED
Peter Templer NERFINISHED
followsInNarrative Nicholas Jenkins’s early adulthood
Nicholas Jenkins’s schooldays
genre literary fiction
novel of manners
hasSequel A Buyer’s Market NERFINISHED
literaryMovement postwar British fiction
narrativePerspective first-person narration
narrator Nicholas Jenkins NERFINISHED
notableFor detailed social observation
introspective narrative style
originalLanguage English
partOfSeries A Dance to the Music of Time NERFINISHED
positionInSeries first novel
protagonist Nicholas Jenkins NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1951
publisher Heinemann NERFINISHED
seriesBy Anthony Powell NERFINISHED
setting England
settingPeriod interwar period
theme English upper-class life
friendship
memory
passage of time
social change

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A Dance to the Music of Time firstVolume A Question of Upbringing
A Dance to the Music of Time hasPart A Question of Upbringing