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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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| 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
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friendship ⓘ memory ⓘ passage of time ⓘ social change ⓘ |
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