Wolf Solent

Wolf Solent PDF Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140021820
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 633

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Book Description
Often described as one of the great apocalyptic novels of our time, WOLF SOLENT is the story of a young man returning from London to work near to the school at which his father had been history master. Complex, romantic and humorous, it is a classicwork combining a close understanding of man's everyday experience with a delicate awareness of the spiritual.

Wolf Solent

Wolf Solent PDF Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140021820
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 633

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Book Description
Often described as one of the great apocalyptic novels of our time, WOLF SOLENT is the story of a young man returning from London to work near to the school at which his father had been history master. Complex, romantic and humorous, it is a classicwork combining a close understanding of man's everyday experience with a delicate awareness of the spiritual.

A Glastonbury Romance

A Glastonbury Romance PDF Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In the Spirit of Powys

In the Spirit of Powys PDF Author: Denis Lane
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838751732
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Book Description
This work is a collection of essays on the work of John Cowper Powys, the English novelist and Nobel nominee. The critical intention of these essays is to provide a picture of Powys's achievement.

Weymouth Sands

Weymouth Sands PDF Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9780715638750
Category : Weymouth (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Drawing on his own vivid childhood memories of the seaside town of Weymouth, Powys creates a striking collection of human oddities, through which he shows his deep sympathy for the variety, eccentricity and loneliness of human beings.

Ducdame

Ducdame PDF Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Book Description
Decay of an English country family.

Teddy's Child

Teddy's Child PDF Author: Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1588381951
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Book Description
Historian and biographer Virginia Hamilton explores the deep roots of family and place in her coming-of-age memoir set in Birmingham, Alabama, in the period between World Wars I and II.

Owen Glendower

Owen Glendower PDF Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Book Description
It is the year 1400, and Wales is on the brink of a bloody revolt. At a market fair on the banks of the River Dee, a gathering of peasants, bards, prophets, heretics, and soldiers, a mad rebel priest and his beautiful companion are condemned to be burned at the stake. To their rescue rides the unlikely figure of Rhisiart, a young Oxford scholar whose fate will be entangled with that of Owen Glendower, the last true Prince of Wales, a man called, at times against his will, to fulfill the prophesied role of national redeemer

The Reimagining of Place in English Modernism

The Reimagining of Place in English Modernism PDF Author: Sam Wiseman
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1942954018
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Book Description
Analyses key texts by D.H. Lawrence, John Cowper Powys, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf, charting their respective attempts to forge new identities, perspectives and literary approaches that reconcile tradition and modernity, belonging and exploration, the rural and the metropolitan.

The Meaning of Culture

The Meaning of Culture PDF Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Pomona Press
ISBN: 1443734810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Book Description
'Mr. Powys is to be congratulated on having written a book of the kind that most needs writing and most deserves to be read...Here in a dozen chapters of eloquent and glowing prose, Mr. Powys describes for every reader that citadel which is himself, and explains to him how it maybe strengthened and upheld and on what terms it is most worth upholding.. The virtue of his book is that it is freshly and clearly focussed to meet the present situation to encourage and establish developing experience in growing minds' Manchester Guardian

Enjoyment of Literature

Enjoyment of Literature PDF Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: New York, Simon
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Book Description
A collection of literary essays.