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John Cowper Powys
A Londoner travels to the countryside and finds himself in an isolated, pagan world of nature worship, eroticism, and mysticism.
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In this extraordinary piece all of John Cowper Powys’ eccentric and wild inventiveness is on display.
In a small flat in New York in the 1920s an old couple, former…
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Embark on a mesmerizing journey through the labyrinthine depths of the human psyche with John Cowper Powys' visionary work, "The Complex Vision." In this magnum opus, Powys weaves a tapestry…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Joe Boulter
New Essays on John Cowper Powys, including a postmodern reading of Powys via G. Wilson Knight, Mikhail Bakhtin, Jean Baudrillard and Gianni Vattimo; Wolf Solent, parody and postmodern fiction; Jacques…
A new collection of essays. H.W. Fawkner’s essay A–Venusi explores issues of reading, movement, love and sex, the ‘amorous self’, and affectivity in A Glastonbury Romance. Ian Hughes looks at…
'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…
Harald Fawkner
A critical study of the novelist John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) by a leading Powys critic.
Jeremy Mark Robinson
Both Hardy and Powys created a poetic Wessex landscape. Hardy’s Wessex has entered popular folklore and myth, and is used in the promotion of holidays, walks, tours, museums, hotels, even…
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for while it is easy to indicate the overtones and undertones of Sensuality it would be hard to bring a gentle, vague word, like the word “sensuousness” down to the…
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Samphire is a novel by John Cowper Powys. It tells the story of two families living in a small seaside town in England and explores the themes of love, desire…
This collection of poetry by John Cowper Powys is both haunting and enchanting. His use of vivid language and imagery creates a sense of otherworldliness that transports readers to a…
(LARGE PRINT EDITION) This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
Divided in two parts, this book includes: Analysis of Culture which deals with, in separate chapters, Philosophy, Literature, Poetry, Painting and Religion, and Application of Culture which covers Happiness, Love…
Rodmoor: A Romance, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts…
Explores the problem of how man lives with his fellow man, and also with woman. As opposed to the abstract arguments concerning Man in the universe, this title deals with…
A collection of insightful and thought-provoking essays on great works of literature. Explore the themes and meanings of great works of the past through the lens of a gifted literary…
Publisher: G. A. Shaw Publication date: 1916 Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Poetry / General Poetry / English, Irish…
In this novella, first published in 1957, a young couple, Gor Goginog and Rhitha, experience the great dual atomic explosion which ends the world, and smashes the planet to smithereens.
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This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
Wood and Stone was John Cowper Powys’ first novel published in 1915. The novel is set in the area of south Somerset that John Cowper Powys grew up in. When…
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) was a British writer, lecturer, and philosopher. He studied at Sherborne School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and became a teacher and lecturer; as lecturer, he…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
