Mr. Tasker's Gods

Mr. Tasker's Gods
Author: Theodore Francis Powys
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1929
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

Fables

Fables
Author: Theodore Francis Powys
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2011
Genre: Fables
ISBN: 9780571277421

Inanimate objects take life and animals speak in T. F. Powys's collection of fables, which was first published in 1929: a dish-cloth and an old pan, lying on a rubbish heap, discuss the emotional intricacies of the household that has discarded them; the efforts of a determined spinster to marry off all her furniture end in tragedy; a rabbit takes advice from a viper to avenge the death of her son. Set in the Dorset countryside that also inspired Powys's novels, these are tales of morality, original and surprising, as all good fables should be.

God's Eyes A-Twinkle

God's Eyes A-Twinkle
Author: T.F. Powys
Publisher:
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2011
Genre: England
ISBN: 9780571275274

God's Eyes A-Twinkle offers a conspectus of thirty eight short stories by T. F. Powys drawn from the following collections: "Bottle's Path"; "No Painted Plumage"; "Captain Patch"; "The House with the Echo"; "The White Paternoster; The Left Leg." The stories included are: "A Loud Lie"; "Darkness and Nathaniel"; "Only the Devil"; "The" "Seaweed and the Cuckoo-Clock"; "Jesus' Walk"; "The Key of the Field"; "I Came as a Bride"; "The Gong"; "The White Weathercock"; "When Thou wast Naked"; "Charlotte Bennett"; "John Pardy and the Waves"; "Mr Pim and the Holy Crumb"; "King Duck"; "The Bucket and the Rope"; "The Devil"; "The Only Penitent"; "The White Paternoster"; "The Stone and Mr Thomas"; "My Money"; "Christ in the Cupboard"; "Archdeacon Truggin"; "The Left Leg"; "A Christmas Gift"; "The Candle and the Slow-Worm"; "The Lonely Lady"; "The Rival Pastors"; "The Golden Gates"; "The Dog and the Lantern"; "Captain Patch"; "No Room"; "The Dewpond"; "Bottle's Path"; "Gold"; "In" "Dull Devonshire"; "Lie The Down, Oddity!"; "John Told and the Worm"; "The Corpse and the Flea." Charles Prentice, who had been T. F. Powys' editor, concludes his preface in a way that would be difficult to better, 'They (the stories) should all be read slowly. Powys is not a literalist; his words convey more than their face value. These stories treat of the general and unalterable, with subtlety of thought and feeling, and with simplicity of presentation. Wisdom and humour are embedded in them. They reveal the infinite mystery, the fluid inconsistencies of life. They are delicate, wiry and human. 'God's eyes' are 'a-twinkle'. But the main business is the incalculable doings of that oddity Man.' In addition to "God's Eyes A-Twinkle," Faber Finds are reissuing the following T. F. Powys books: "Mr Tasker's Gods"; "Mark Only"; "Fables"; "Mockery Gap"; "Innocent Birds."

Unclay

Unclay
Author: T. F. Powys
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2018-11-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0811228207

T. F. Powys is a forgotten genius like no other—and Unclay is his masterpiece New Directions is proud to present one of the most spellbinding novels you will read this year, and certainly the weirdest. First published in 1931, Unclay glows with an unworldly light—Death has come to the small village of Dodder to deliver a parchment with the names of two local mortals and the fatal word unclay upon it. When he loses the precious sheet, he is at a loss, and also free of his errand. Hungry to taste the sweet fruits of human life, Mr. John Death, as he is now known, takes a holiday in Dorsetshire and rests from his reaping. The village teems with the old virtues (love, kindness, patience) and the old sins (lust, avarice, greed). What unfolds is a witty, earthy, metaphysical, and delicious novel of enormous moral force and astonishing beauty.