Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, and is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England. It is unrivalled for its scope, its humour and the enormous pleasure it has given to generations.
The Summer omnibus incorporates books four to six, and follows Nicholas Jenkins , Widmerpool and their friends, acquaintances and hangers-on, as they encounter marriage, ambition, social success and miserable failure.
