Download or read book Wolf Solent written by John Cowper Powys and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1998-11-24 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1929, John Cowper Powys's novel of Eros and ideas was compared with works by Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, and D.H. Lawrence. Wolf Solent remains wholly unrivaled 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, 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. "A novelist of great, cumulative force and lyrical intensity. . . . Out of his rhapsodic style and keen attentiveness to nature, he builds a tower of prose to match the firmament.”—Washington Post Book World
Download or read book Wolf Solent written by John Cowper Powys and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Wolf Solent A Novel Volume I written by John Cowper Powys and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Wolf Solent A Novel Volume II written by John Cowper Powys and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-02 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Wolf Solent written by John Cowper Powys and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Glastonbury Romance written by John Cowper Powys and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Cowper Powys s Wolf Solent written by Belinda Humfrey and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolf Solent, first published in 1929.
Download or read book In the Spirit of Powys written by Denis Lane and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Weymouth Sands written by John Cowper Powys and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his vivid childhood memories of the seaside town of Weymouth, author John Cowper Powys creates a striking collection of human oddities, through which he shows his deep sympathy for the variety, the eccentricity, the essential loneliness of human beings. “To encounter Powys is to arrive at the very fount of creation.”—Henry Miller.
Download or read book Teddy s Child written by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian and biographer Virginia Hamilton explores the deep roots of family and place in her coming-of-age memoir set in Birmingham, Alabama, in the period between World Wars I and II.
Download or read book The Reimagining of Place in English Modernism written by Sam Wiseman and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses key texts by D.H. Lawrence, John Cowper Powys, Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf, charting their respective attempts to forge new identities, perspectives and literary approaches that reconcile tradition and modernity, belonging and exploration, the rural and the metropolitan.
Download or read book Owen Glendower written by John Cowper Powys and published by New York : Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1940 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Ducdame written by John Cowper Powys and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decay of an English country family.
Download or read book DESCENTS OF MEMORY written by Morine Krissdottir and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cowper Powys's 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 ? with an immensity to which only Blake could provide a parallel in English literature' (George Steiner, The New Yorker). His talents were manifested by such books as his Autobiography, Wolf Solent, Weymouth Sands, and A Glastonbury Romance.In this, Powys's first comprehensive biography, eminent scholar Morine Krissdottir delves into the life of the writer, from his childhood in Derbyshire through his celebrated lecture tours through England and the US; from his life's loves to his relationship with his own writing. Krissdottir demonstrates that Powys - known as much for his essays, letters, poetry, and philosophy as he was for his fiction - was a man whose writing had a scope matched only by the breadth of his life. Using primary sources, never-before-seen archival materials (including photos), and Powys's own writings, Krissdottir pieces together this life in a way that will be impossible to forget
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Fantasy written by John Clute and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.
Download or read book The Art of Growing Old written by John Cowper Powys and published by London : J. Cape [1944]. This book was released on 1944 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enjoyment of Literature written by John Cowper Powys and published by New York, Simon. This book was released on 1938 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of literary essays.
