H W Fawkner (22 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Exlibrary with usual library markings. Clear book repair tape around spine. ; 164 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. Bright copy: glossy card covers; pages appear white and clean overall; binding tight. Used - Very Good. VG paperback.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pen markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:9155406300.

softcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 116 p. ISBN: 9781861711274 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 180.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

First edition. 261 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in very good indeed dustjacket. Ask to see our other Shakespeare titles.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Crescent Moon Publishing, 1998. Blue printed wrappers. Very good. [Essays on Own Glendower and Weymouth Sands].

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Faint mottling to cloth otherwise very good indeed in slightly edge-nicked dust jacket.

Rutherford; Fairleigh Dickinson Ussociated University Presses, 1984. 24x16 cm. 180 pp. Publisher's cloth with printed dustjacket. The jacket is slightly creased at spine ends and corners, and has a price label on front flap. The spine ends are a bit bumped. A few light pencil markings in margins. From the library of professor of English Claes Schaar (1920-2012).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Powys Society, 2010. Wrappers. Fine.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

1st ed. - 257 pages. - With bibliogr., index. - Cloth with dustjacket, good.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 116 Illus.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 116 2.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 116.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - AMOROUS LIFEOne of the most fascinating explorations of the work of British novelist John Cowper Powys by H.W. Fawkner, one of the foremost commentators of this neglected, completely extraordinary author.EXTRACTWeymouth Sands is a wonderful novel. In a sense it is the foremost work to come from the pen of John Cowper Powys. There is a sense of aesthetic consummation saving the novel from the sprawling excessivenesses of some of its chief creative rivals. A Glastonbury Romance has the same indomitable energy, and even the same type of internal happiness; but it does not have an equal sense of measure, poise, and economy. At the same time, Weymouth Sands is not a curtailing of Powys's genius - in the way that Great Expectations sacrifices Dickens's marvellous capacity for nonsensical digression demonstrated as early as Pickwick Papers.The lack of bulk and the loss of enormity do not prevent Weymouth Sands from asserting itself as mass. Weymouth is not less solid than Glastonbury. The advancing and retreating sea-tides are not conceived on a scale that is more limited than the one utilized as canvas for the grand brushstrokes of history in Owen Glendower.In becoming John Cowper's most aesthetically perfect work, Weymouth Sands has made no sacrifices whatsoever. Here that which is most aesthetic is by the same token that which is most Powysian, most eccentric. For some strange reason, the eccentricity of Weymouth Sands is compatible with the principles of traditional aesthetic form - something which we can say of few other works from the hand of this artist.John Cowper's best fiction and best philosophy is built on the idea - indeed reality - of deliciousness. Deliciousness as such vanishes from the writer's horizon as he progressively slips from the height of his powers into old age. In this sliding, Powys drifts away not only from the astonishing precision of his material hold on the richness of his own life-receptivity but also from the idea of the work of art as a quintessentially Powysian construct. In John Cowper Powys's best works, the idea of the presence of deliciousness is indistinguishable from the idea of the presence of amorous life. By amorous life I basically mean what the narrator means in Weymouth Sands when describes the ideal-erotic affectivity of women like Gipsy May, Marret, and Peg Frampton as 'a latent passion to offer up their amorous life as mystics offer up their souls'. In this assertion, 'amorous life' and 'soul' are understood as being on a par, as somehow being each other's possible substitutes. In other words, the 'soul' passes imperceptibly into 'amorous life' for a mystic who no longer lives in the ancient world of dogma but in the world as we know it today. In a sense, in fact, 'amorous life' is a refinement of 'soul.'.

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextAMOROUS LIFE One of the most fascinating explorations of the work of British novelist John Cowper Powys by H.W. Fawkner, one of the foremost commentators of this neglected, completely extraordinary author. EXTRACT We.