A question of upbringing
Subtitle: a novel
By: Anthony Powell.
Edition: Flamingo ed. --
Series: A Dance to the music of time -- 1
Publisher: Fontana Paperbacks
Published: 1983
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Description: A Question of Upbringing (1951) introduces us to the young Nick Jenkins and his housemates at boarding school in the years just after World War I. Boyhood pranks and visits from relatives bring to life the amusements and longueurs of schooldays even as they reveal characters and traits that will follow Jenkins and his friends through adolescence and beyond: Peter Templer, a rich, passionate womanizer; Charles Stringham, aristocratic and louche; and Kenneth Widmerpool, awkward and unhappy, yet strikingly ambitious. By the end of the novel, Jenkins has finished university and is setting out on a life in London; old ties are fraying, new ones are forming, and the first steps of the dance are well underway.
Notes: Originally published: London : Heinemann, 1951.