'Along with "Wolf Solent", "A Glastonbury Romance" 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 tells the story of Jobber Skald - a large, somewhat brutish man, obsessed with the urge to kill the local magnate of the town because of the man's contempt for the workers of the local quarry - and his redeeming love for Perdita Wane, a young girl from the Channel Islands. "Weymouth Sands" boasts a striking collection of human oddities, including a famous clown and his mad brother, a naive Latin teacher, a young philosopher, and an abortionist. Against the mysterious and haunting background of the sea, the sands, and the stones of Dorset coast, Powys weaves together his characters' ever-fascinating patterns of behaviour into an epic tale which depicts the power of Eros, the inscrutability of the universe, and the nature of madness, while highlightling Powys' deep sympathy for the variety, eccentricity, and essential loneliness of human beings.

Weymouth Sands (Harper Colophon Books, Cn 1164)

POWYS,John Cowper

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

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.

Modern Classics Wolf Solent

Contemporary

Penguin Classic

The story of a young man returning, after ten years in London, to work as a literary assistant near the school where his own father had been history master.

20th Century Wolf Solent

A Glastonbury Romance, first published in 1932, is Powys masterwork, an epic novel of terrific cumulative force and lyrical intensity. In it he probes the mystical and spiritual ethos of the small English village of Glastonbury, and the effect upon its inhabitants of a mythical tradition from the remotest past of human history - the legend of the Grail. Powys's rich iconography interweaves the ancient with the modern, the historical with the legendary, and the imaginative within man with the natural world outside him to create a book of astonishing scope and beauty.

A Glastonbury Romance

Penguin

Weymouth Sands

Penguin USA

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.

The extraordinary mind of the novelist John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) has never been so revealingly displayed as in this decade of diary entries, for the most part previously unpublished. They begin in America, as Powys withdraws from twenty-five years of freelance lecturing, and end in Wales, with the completion of Owen Glendower.Day-to-day preoccupations - from the aesthetic to the anatomical - are here, along with reflections on his works in progress (books on philosophy, religion and literature, and five novels including A Glastonbury Romance), encounters with members of his family, and observations of rural life in upstate New York, in his beloved West Country, and in Wales. The entries also chart the complexities of his exceptional intimate life with Phyllis Playter, to form her biography as well as his autobiography. Skilfully edited from the vast original text, this selection distils the essence of Powys's life.

Petrushka and the Dancer: The Diaries of John Cowper Powys, 1929-1939

British & Irish

Carcanet Press Ltd.

'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

The Meaning of Culture

Classics

Greenwood Pub Group

One of the greatest novels of the 20th century. "Its heroine is the Grail. Its hero is the Life poured into the Grail. Its message is that no one Receptacle of Life and no one Fountain of Life poured in the Receptacle can contain or explain what the world offers us." (Powys) 1,120 pages.

Picador

Owen Glendower (Picador Books)

Genre Fiction

Macmillan

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Weymouth Sands (Harper Colophon Books, Cn 1164)

Modern Classics Wolf Solent

20th Century Wolf Solent

A Glastonbury Romance

Weymouth Sands

Modern Classics Wolf Solent

Petrushka and the Dancer: The Diaries of John Cowper Powys, 1929-1939

The Meaning of Culture

A Glastonbury Romance

Owen Glendower (Picador Books)