Free (Kindle/B&N/Sony) Book One of A Dance to the Music of Time

[arcadata]

A Question of Upbringing: Book One of A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell

Product Description
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally published--as twelve individual novels--but with a twenty-first-century twist: they're available only as e-books. 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.

[Dr. Drib]

Got it!

Thank you.



Don

[basschick]

sounds interesting - thanks

[bgalbrecht]

Also free at B&N

[FF2]

arcadata:

Thanks for this long list of freebies for Kindle and for the similar list from yesterday.

If you don't mind my asking, are these "longer" lists generally available at the end/beginning of months or is it more random than that? But in any event THANKS.

[pdurrant]

The University of Chicago Press has a free ebook every month. This month it's their new publication, the first book of the 12 book "A Dance to the Music of Time" epic.

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html

You need to give them your email address, and they email you a link to the page where you can download the .acsm file for the ePub.

It seems to have no geographical restrictions.

[petercreasey]

Anthony Powell's A Question of Upbringing

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.

“One of the most important works of fiction since the Second World War.… The novel looked, as it began, something like a comedy of manners; then, for a while, like a tragedy of manners; now like a vastly entertaining, deeply melancholy, yet somehow courageous statement about human experience.”—Naomi Bliven, New Yorker

UChicago Press Free eBook

[Oh, Why Not?]

Available free on Kindle today -- Sony has several other volumes for sale -- all published ebooks from Nov 24th 2010.

[colinsky]

Note this is the first volume in a "set" of 12. They are also offering 30% off any of the others over the course of the month.

[AlexBell]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

The University of Chicago Press has a free ebook every month. This month it's their new publication, the first book of the 12 book "A Dance to the Music of Time" epic.

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html

You need to give them your email address, and they email you a link to the page where you can download the .acsm file for the ePub.

It seems to have no geographical restrictions.

Are you sure it's ePub, Paul? I was on their list until this morning, and all the books I've got from them have been pdf. And they say that one can print out the first 50 pages.

Regards, Alex

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by AlexBell

Are you sure it's ePub, Paul? I was on their list until this morning, and all the books I've got from them have been pdf. And they say that one can print out the first 50 pages.

Yes, this one is ePub. Most of the previous books have been PDF, but I have this one sitting in my Digital Editions folder and it's most definitely an ePub, not a PDF. I can unzip it to give an ePub source folder.

[ATDrake]

Now also free at Sony, available for Canadians and presumably others.