Author: John Cowper PowysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Glastonbury Romance
Author: John Cowper PowysWolf Solent
Author: John Cowper PowysPublisher:
ISBN: 9780140021820
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
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.
Porius
Author: John Cowper PowysPublisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781585679959
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Weymouth Sands
Author: John Cowper PowysPublisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9780715638750
Category : Weymouth (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Autobiography
Author: John Cowper PowysPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571309461
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
'I have tried to write my life as if I were confessing to a priest, a philosopher, and a wise old woman. I have tried to write as if I were going to be executed when it was finished. I have tried to write it as if I were both God and Devil.' One is tempted to say only John Cowper Powys could have written that, and, beyond doubt, only John Cowper Powys could have written the idiosyncratic and spellbinding work we have here. Yes, he was influenced by Yeats and Rousseau, especially the latter's Confessions, but there is no other work quite like this. It seems almost too pedestrian to say it covers the first sixty years of his life (he lived for another thirty years) and to say anything about them, as J. B. Priestley memorably put it, 'would be like turning on a tap before introducing people to Niagara Falls.' J. B. Priestley also said 'It is a book which can be read, with pleasure and profit, over and over again. It is in fact one of the greatest autobiographies in the English language. Even if Powys had never written any novels, this one book alone would have proved him to be a writer of genius.'
One Hundred Best Books
Author: John Cowper PowysPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
'One Hundred Best Books' is an essay where the author lays out his opinions on what he thinks is the best 100 books of all-time were, at the time when he was writing, which was in 1916. Some of the books that he included were downright controversial at the time, but are now widely celebrated, such as 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Leaves of Grass'. Others, however, are books that were great then, and continue to be considered so now, such as 'The Odyssey', 'Faust', 'The Divine Comedy', and the poems of Walt Whitman.
Owen Glendower
Author: John Cowper PowysPublisher: New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
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
The Meaning of Culture
Author: John Cowper PowysPublisher: Pomona Press
ISBN: 1443734810
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
'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
A Philosophy of Solitude
Author: John Cowper PowysPublisher:
ISBN: 9780904247183
Category : Happiness
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Ducdame
Author: John Cowper PowysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Decay of an English country family.