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A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary, Invitation to the Dance contains extensive Character, Book, Painting and Place indices, creating a magnificent database of Powell's imagination and England's cultural landscape. This is a masterpiece of 'extreme ingenuity' detailing over four hundred characters and one million words of Powell's liv

'Inspired, innovative, remarkable' Independent 'Spurling has done better than anyone else at uncovering intimate information about Matisse' Guardian The abridged, one-volume edition of Hilary Spurling's critically acclaimed biography of Henri Matisse, one of the greatest artistic geniuses of the twentieth century Henri Matisse was one of the most important and beloved artists of the twentieth century, rivalled only by his friend and

Absorbing and provocative, a biography of George Orwell's controversial second wife from the Whitbread Prize-winning author of Matisse the Master and Anthony Powell Just three months before his death, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four took a new wife. Sonia Brownell was model for Julia in Orwell's most famous novel, she was fifteen years younger than her husband, and after his death she was hounded and pilloried as a manipulative gold-digger who would stop a

С именем Анри Матисса связана целая эпоха в истории европейского искусства. Пабло Пикассо охарактеризовал творчество своего соперника одной фразой: "Матисс всегда был единственным и неповторимым". Впервые жизнеописание открывает нам Матисса не безмятежным и уверенным в себе, а сомневающимся, страдающим, не понятым публикой и собственными родными; не опасным анархистом и дикарем, а воспитанным, умным, образованным человеком, любящим поэзию и умеющим рассуждать об искусстве лучше любых критиков. Практичный и консервативный в жизни, романтический и бунтарский в творчестве - таким предстает реформатор искусства XX века, художник, сумевший…