Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140021820
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 633
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
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140021820
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 633
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140021820
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 633
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
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the Spirit of Powys
Author: Denis Lane
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838751732
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838751732
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9780715638750
Category : Weymouth (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9780715638750
Category : Weymouth (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Decay of an English country family.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Decay of an English country family.
Teddy's Child
Author: Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1588381951
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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.
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1588381951
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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
Author: Sam Wiseman
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1942954018
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1942954018
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Pomona Press
ISBN: 1443734810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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
Publisher: Pomona Press
ISBN: 1443734810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: New York, Simon
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
A collection of literary essays.
Publisher: New York, Simon
ISBN:
Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
A collection of literary essays.