Fiction

This was published back in the 50's as a 3000 page series of 12 novels. Critics called it Proustian, but Proust is a humorless bore while Powell has an ironic bent and a taste for satire. There's a lot of humor, but it's very British, and therefore sometimes hard to detect. The series follows the lives of 4 men from Public School through late middle age. There's a strong sense of life as it's being lived, seen through the eyes of one of the men, Nick Jenkins. If you like the idea of spending a month or so in another time and place, these may appeal to you. My library only had volume 1 of 4. I bought the rest on line for an average price of about $1.50 plus shipping, for 3 apparently unread and brand new trade paperbacks.