Weymouth Sands
Weymouth Sands

Author: John Cowper Powys

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13:

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Along with A Glastonbury Romance, Wolf Solent, and Maiden Castle, this modern classic originally published in 1934 forms the quartet that "are just about the only novels produced by an English writer that can fairly be compared with the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky" (George Steiner, The New Yorker). Drawing on his vivid childhood memories of the seaside town of Weymouth, Powys creates a striking collection of human oddities -- a famous clown, his mad brother, a naive Latin teacher, a young philosopher, an abortionist, and a wealth of others -- through which he shows his deep sympathy for the variety, the eccentricity, and the essential loneliness of human beings. Against the mysterious and haunting background of the sea, the sands, and the stones of the Dorset coast, the secrets of life are revealed through the everfascinating patterns of human behavior.

Weymouth Sands
Weymouth Sands

Author: John Cowper Powys

Publisher: London, Macdonald

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13:

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Passions of the Earth in Human Existence, Creativity, and Literature
Passions of the Earth in Human Existence, Creativity, and Literature

Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9401009309

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Literature reveals that the hidden strings of the human `passional soul' are the creative source of the specifically human existence. Continuing the inquiry into the `elemental passions of the soul' and the Human Creative Soul pursued in several previous volumes of this series, the present volume focuses on the `passions of the earth', bringing to light some of the primogenital existential threads of the innermost bonds of the Human Condition and mother earth. In Tymieniecka's words, the studies purpose to unravel the essential bond between the living human being and the earth - a bond that lies at the heart of our existence. A heightened awareness of this bond should enlighten our situation and help us find our existential bearings.

In the Spirit of Powys
In the Spirit of Powys

Author: Denis Lane

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780838751732

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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.

Sandscapes
Sandscapes

Author: Jo Carruthers

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 3030447804

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Sandscapes: Writing the British Seaside reflects on the unique topography of sand, sandscapes, and the seaside in British culture and beyond. This book brings together creative and critical writings that explore the ways sand speaks to us of holidays and respite, but also of time and mortality, of plenitude and eternity. Drawing together writers from a range of backgrounds, the volume explores the environmental, social, personal, cultural, and political significance of sand and the seaside towns that have built up around it. The contributions take a variety of forms including fiction and nonfiction and cover topics ranging from sand dunes to sand mining, from seaside stories to shoreline architecture, from sand grains to global sand movements, from narratives of the setting up of bed and breakfasts to stories of seaside decline. Often a symbol of aridity, sand is revealed in this book to be an astonishingly fertile site for cultural meaning.

Weymouth From Old Photographs
Weymouth From Old Photographs

Author: Eddie Prowse

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2014-06-15

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 144562303X

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A unique and charming look at the history of Weymouth and its local inhabitants, through a fascinating collection of beautiful photographs.