Mr. Weston's Good Wine - Softcover

Powys, T. F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434433919 ISBN 13: 9781434433916

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2013

Synopsis

Theodore Francis Powys (1875-1953) was a British writer from a family of writers, best know for his idiosyncratic Christian allegorical fantasy, Mr. Weston's Good Wine. John Carey of the Sunday Times called it "grimly brilliant," and many consider it a masterpiece.

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Review:

"Mr Weston's Good Wine is a book without parallel. It is an allegory, it is a bucolic farce, it is a religious (or anti-religious?) masterpiece" (A N Wilson Daily Telegraph)

"The greatest value of his work, though, is in showing that it is still possible to write about the primordial human experiences to which religion is a response...Very few 20th-century authors have the knack of writing convincingly of first and last things. A religious writer without any vestige of belief, Theodore Powys is one of them" (John Gray New Statesman)

"Grimly brilliant" (John Carey Sunday Times)

"[It is] generally considered his masterpiece" (Washington Post)

"A writer who far outshone his contemporaries" (Spectator)

From the Publisher:

A classic religious allegory published in Vintage for a whole new generation of readers

About this edition

• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1434433919
• ISBN 13: 9781434433916
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326