Enjoyment of Literature

Enjoyment of Literature
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: New York, Simon
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1938
Genre: Books and reading
ISBN:

A collection of literary essays.

Mr Weston's Good Wine

Mr Weston's Good Wine
Author: T. F. Powys
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2022-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Mr Weston's Good Wine" by T. F. Powys. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Earth Memories

Earth Memories
Author: Llewelyn Powys
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2019-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789123674

Earth Memories is a wonderful collection of essays by the English writer Llewelyn Powys. These ‘love letters to the English Countryside’ manifest throughout great depth of nature lore and observation hand in hand with the author’s own personal pagan creed and commentary on places, people and things. This edition, which was first published in 1938, includes an Introduction by the American literary critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Van Wyck Brooks. “Wherever Llewelyn Powys has lived, his mind has always turned towards England, the homeland that haunts him like a passion. Under the stars in the African jungle, poring over Robert Burton, whose rhythms have left long traces in his style—a style that is often archaic and always rare in texture—he dreamed of English gardens. In New York, in the clattering streets, he would see the cuckoo perched singing on the top of Sandsfoot Castle. He can always regain serenity, he says in one of his essays, by thinking of the playground of his childhood, the pear trees of Montacute Vicarage. High as his fever may be, the memory of this enchanted ground quiets his pulse in a moment; and his pictures of England suggest the eye of the convalescent, as if the world had been reborn for him. They are full of an all but miraculous freshness.”—Van Wyck Brooks, Introduction

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.

Wolf Solent

Wolf Solent
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher:
Total Pages: 633
Release: 1964
Genre: English fiction
ISBN: 9780140021820

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.

Weymouth Sands

Weymouth Sands
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-04
Genre: Weymouth (England)
ISBN: 9780715638750

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.

Owen Glendower

Owen Glendower
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1940
Genre: English fiction
ISBN:

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

Porius

Porius
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781585679959

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.