Title: From a view to a death
First published: 1933
Description: From a View to a Death is Anthony Powell's third novel and possibly his funniest. The story is of a ruthless London artist who pursues his sexual and financial quarry in the county and near-county society of rural England. V. S. Pritchett writing in the New Statesman has called it a 'social return-match; the undesirable artist among the speechless foxhunters ... The characters are perennial in the classical English comedy of country life.'
'I find Anthony Powell as funny a writer as Evelyn Waugh and Sir Max Beerbohm' - John Betjeman.
Anthony Powell is acknowledged as one of the most important novelists writing in Britain today, and his *'Music of Time'* sequence of books has been acclaimed as the finest piece of English fiction since the war.
Subjects: Eccentrics and eccentricities, Fiction, Fiction in English, Fox hunting, Painters, Portrait painting, Fiction, humorous, general
Places: England