Wolf Solent: A Novel, Volume II

Wolf Solent: A Novel, Volume II
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2018-12-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1789127521

When it was first published in 1929, John Cowper Powys’ rapturous novel of eros and ideas was compared with works by Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, and D. H. Lawrence. Since then it has won the admiration of writers from Henry Miller to Iris Murdoch. Wolf Solent remains wholly unrivalled in its deft and risky balance of mysticism and social comedy, ecstatic contemplation of nature and unblinking observation of human folly and desire. Forsaking London for Ramsgard, a village in Dorsetshire, Wolf Solent discovers a world of pagan splendor and medieval insularity, riddled by ancient scandals and resentments. And there this poetic young man meets two women—the sensuous beauty Gerda and the ethereal gamine Christie—who will become the sharers of his body and soul. Audacious, extravagant, and gloriously strange, Wolf Solent is a twentieth-century masterpiece. This present volume is the first volume in a set of two. “The only book in the English language to rival Tolstoy.”—George Steiner “[Powys is] as domestic as Jane Austen, a genius like her at creating a cast of characters as part of a comedy and in a comic setting....[He is] as brilliant an explorer of our erotic being as D. H. Lawrence.”—New York Review of Books “A momentous work...of transcendent interest and great beauty.”—The New York Times Book Review “Filled with authentic characters and closely caught conversations, [Powys’s books] resemble Shakespeare in the interplay of cultured and ignorant, male and female.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Wolf Solent is a brilliant book...beautifully managed, and with the finest of inevitability.”—Conrad Aiken “In the beauty and freshness of its imagery and the sustained interest of its narrative, its power is without question. Its prose often rises to the cadence of poetry”—New York Herald Tribune “An epic of pagan beauty.”—Chicago Tribune

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.

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.

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

Ducdame

Ducdame
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1925
Genre: Man-woman relationships
ISBN:

Decay of an English country family.

Descents of Memory

Descents of Memory
Author: Morine Krissdottir
Publisher: Gerald Duckworth
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2008-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780715637616

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.

The Meaning of Culture

The Meaning of Culture
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Pomona Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2008-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1443734810

'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