A brilliant reading pleasure! Mysterious spiritualist sessions and dinner parties: Uncle Giles and his partner, the fortune teller Mrs. Erdleigh, are back. Although life seems more threatening, things still have their magic. And Jenkins realizes: all joys are mixed joys. Deception, upheavals, rivalries - the whole spectrum of the Comédie humaine. Volume 3 of Anthony Powell's 12-volume masterpiece 'A Dance to the Music of Time': a British social panorama of unknown magnitude - a forgotten gem, monumental in scope and craftsmanship. Powell paints a multifaceted picture of the English upper class from the end of World War I to the end of the 1960s: an incomparable wealth of fascinating characters, events, and deep insights into human nature. A masterpiece full of witty points, light-footed.