Abbreviations for AP Works

A listing of the generally used abbreviations for Anthony Powell's works and related publications.

References to the AP’s works cited on this website, and in Society publications are, unless specified, to the first UK editions of the individual works. In the interest of concision the following abbreviations are generally used.

Works by Powell, including edited works

A&P

Agents and Patients (London: Duckworth, 1936)

AM

Afternoon Men (London: Duckworth, 1931)

Aubrey

John Aubrey and His Friends (London: Heinemann, 1948)

AubreyBL

Brief Lives and Other Selected Writings by John Aubrey (London: The Cresset Press, 1949)

AW

The Acceptance World (London: Heinemann, 1955)

Barnard

Barnard Letters 1778-1824 (London: Duckworth, 1928)

BDFR

Books Do Furnish a Room (London: Heinemann, 1971)

BM

A Buyer's Market (London: Heinemann, 1952)

CCR

Casanova's Chinese Restaurant (London: Heinemann, 1960)

Dance

A Dance to the Music of Time (London: Heinemann, 1951-75)

Faces

To Keep the Ball Rolling: Faces in My Time (London: Heinemann, 1980)

FK

The Fisher King (London: Heinemann, 1986)

FVD

From a View to a Death (London: Duckworth, 1933)

HSH

Hearing Secret Harmonies (London: Heinemann, 1975)

Infants

To Keep the Ball Rolling: Infants of the Spring (London: Heinemann, 1976)

J82-86

Journals 1982-1986 (London: Heinemann, 1995)

J87-89

Journals 1987-1989 (London: Heinemann, 1996)

J90-92

Journals 1990-1992 (London: Heinemann, 1997)

KO

The Kindly Ones (London: Heinemann, 1962)

LM

At Lady Molly's (London: Heinemann, 1957)

Messengers

To Keep the Ball Rolling: Messengers of Day (London: Heinemann, 1978)

MP

The Military Philosophers (London: Heinemann, 1968)

MV

Miscellaneous Verdicts: Writings on Writers 1946-1989 (London: Heinemann, 1990)

Plays

Two Plays (London: Heinemann, 1971)

Poets

Some Poets, Artists & 'A Reference for Mellors' (London: Timewell Press, 2005)

QU

A Question of Upbringing (London: Heinemann, 1951)

SA

The Soldier's Art (London: Heinemann, 1966)

Strangers

To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Strangers All Are Gone (London: Heinemann, 1982)

TK

Temporary Kings (London: Heinemann, 1973)

TKBR

To Keep the Ball Rolling (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983)

UR

Under Review (London: Heinemann, 1992)

VB

The Valley of Bones (London: Heinemann, 1964)

VNB

Venusberg (London: Duckworth, 1932)

WBW

What’s Become of Waring (London: Cassell, 1939)

Wheel

O, How the Wheel Becomes It! (London, Heinemann, 1983)

WN

A Writer's Notebook (London: Heinemann, 2001)

Other Related Works

Album

Violet Powell, The Album of Anthony Powell’s 'Dance to the Music of Time' (London: Thames & Hudson, 1987)

Barber

Michael Barber, Anthony Powell: a Life (London: Duckworth, 2004)

Birns

Nicholas Birns, Understanding Anthony Powell, (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2004)

Lilley

George Lilley, Anthony Powell: A Bibliography, (Wichester: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1993)

Spurling

Hilary Spurling, Handbook to Anthony Powell’s 'Music of Time' (London: Heinemann, 1977)
[Republished as Invitation to the Dance: A Guide to Anthony Powell's 'Dance to the Music of Time' (Boston: Little Brown, 1978; London: Mandarin, 1992)]

SpurlingLife

Hilary Spurling, Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2017)