A QUESTION OF UPBRINGING. A BUYERS MARKET. THE ACCEPTANCE WORLD. Anthony Powells brilliant twelve-novel sequence chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters & is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century Engl&. It is unrivalled for its scope its humour & the enormous pleasure it has given to generations. These first three novels in the sequence follow Nicholas Jenkins Kenneth Widmerpool & others as they negotiate the intellectual cultural & social hurdles which stand between them & the Acceptance World.