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The best-known of Powys's novels, A GLASTONBURY ROMANCE is described by the Oxford Companion to English Literature as 'a work on a huge scale, in which Glastonbury and its legends ... exert a supernatural influence on the town - on the religious revival, on the hard commercial interests, on the workers and on the complex loves, both sacred and sexual, of the town's inhabitants'. 'The only novel produced by an English writer that can fairly be compared with Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky' - George Steiner, New Yorker 'A masterpiece ... Open any page and you can find something wonderful' - Margaret Drabble, Daily Telegraph
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The first modern paperback edition of "the only novel produced by an English writer that can fairly be compared with the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoyevski." -George Steiner, "The New Yorker"
"To encounter [Powys] ... is to arrive at the very fount of creation. He makes us witness the consuming fire which rages throughout the universe entire and which gives not warmth nor enlightenment, but enduring vision, enduring strength, and enduring courage." --Henry Miller
"This is a ... great novel. It stands as a gigantic rebuke to a time of minimum-risk writers and readers, and I hope that many among them will be encouraged to attempt it." --"The Chicago Tribune"
?I am working my way slowly through [Powy?s] works of which "A Glastonbury Romance" is the mightiest. Epic in length, this has an important contemporary resonance as all the makings of the modern Glastonbury legends, mirrored and enacted anew at the 1971 Glastonbury Fayre, are prefigured in this remarkable e
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"To encounter [Powys] ... is to arrive at the very fount of creation. He makes us witness the consuming fire which rages throughout the universe entire and which gives not warmth nor enlightenment, but enduring vision, enduring strength, and enduring courage." --Henry Miller
"This is a ... great novel. It stands as a gigantic rebuke to a time of minimum-risk writers and readers, and I hope that many among them will be encouraged to attempt it." --"The Chicago Tribune"
?I am working my way slowly through [Powy?s] works of which "A Glastonbury Romance" is the mightiest. Epic in length, this has an important contemporary resonance as all the makings of the modern Glastonbury legends, mirrored and enacted anew at the 1971 Glastonbury Fayre, are prefigured in this remarkable e
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) was the son of a country parson and was brought up on the Dorset/Devon border. Educated at Cambridge, he lived for a while in the USA before settling finally in Wales. His major novels are A GLASTONBURY ROMANCE, WEYMOUTH and WOLF SOLENT.
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- PublisherMacdonald & Co.
- Publication date1955
- ISBN 10 0356017915
- ISBN 13 9780356017914
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages1120
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