The Acceptance World - Anthony Powell
ANTHONY POWELL
THE ACCEPTANCE WORLD
A NOVEL
Book 3
A Dance to the Music of Time
HEINEMANN : LONDON
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ONCE in a way, perhaps as often as every eighteen months, an invitation to Sunday afternoon tea at the Ufford would arrive on a postcard addressed in Uncle Giles’s neat, constricted handwriting. This private hotel in Bayswater, where he stayed during comparatively rare visits to London, occupied two corner houses in a latent, almost impenetrable region west of the Queen ...