Wolf Solent

Wolf Solent

Author: John Cowper Powys

Publisher:

Published: 1964

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 9780140021820

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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.


Porius

Porius

Author: John Cowper Powys

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Published: 2008-09-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781585679959

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In a Roman fort in Wales at the turn of the sixth century, Porius, the son of a reigning prince, is aided by Merlin the magician, Nineue, and Medrawd in a battle for cultural survival.


Weymouth Sands

Weymouth Sands

Author: John Cowper Powys

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2009-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780715638750

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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.


Autobiography

Autobiography

Author: John Cowper Powys

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2013-12-19

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 0571309461

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'I have tried to write my life as if I were confessing to a priest, a philosopher, and a wise old woman. I have tried to write as if I were going to be executed when it was finished. I have tried to write it as if I were both God and Devil.' One is tempted to say only John Cowper Powys could have written that, and, beyond doubt, only John Cowper Powys could have written the idiosyncratic and spellbinding work we have here. Yes, he was influenced by Yeats and Rousseau, especially the latter's Confessions, but there is no other work quite like this. It seems almost too pedestrian to say it covers the first sixty years of his life (he lived for another thirty years) and to say anything about them, as J. B. Priestley memorably put it, 'would be like turning on a tap before introducing people to Niagara Falls.' J. B. Priestley also said 'It is a book which can be read, with pleasure and profit, over and over again. It is in fact one of the greatest autobiographies in the English language. Even if Powys had never written any novels, this one book alone would have proved him to be a writer of genius.'


One Hundred Best Books

One Hundred Best Books

Author: John Cowper Powys

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-29

Total Pages: 77

ISBN-13:

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'One Hundred Best Books' is an essay where the author lays out his opinions on what he thinks is the best 100 books of all-time were, at the time when he was writing, which was in 1916. Some of the books that he included were downright controversial at the time, but are now widely celebrated, such as 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Leaves of Grass'. Others, however, are books that were great then, and continue to be considered so now, such as 'The Odyssey', 'Faust', 'The Divine Comedy', and the poems of Walt Whitman.


The Meaning of Culture

The Meaning of Culture

Author: John Cowper Powys

Publisher: Pomona Press

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1443734810

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'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


Descents of Memory

Descents of Memory

Author: Morine Krissdottir

Publisher: Gerald Duckworth

Published: 2008-07

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 9780715637616

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John Cowper Powys' works have been described as 'the only novels produced by an English writer that can fairly be compared to the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. This biography delves into the life of the writer, from his childhood in Derbyshire through his lecture tours through England and the US; and his relationship with his own writing.