A Glastonbury Romance

The only novel produced by an English writer that can fairly be compared with Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky

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Possibly the greatest novel of the twentieth century, and one of the great mystical masterpieces of all time.

I believe that A Glastonbury Romance is one of the greatest novels in the world, to be classed with Tolstoy's War and Peace.

John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) was a novelist and poet. He lived a highly itinerant life, including some years as a successful lecturer criss-crossing the USA and Canada. His major novels include Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance, Weymouth Sands and Maiden Castle.

An epic novel of terrific force and lyrical intensity interweaving the ancient with the modern as it probes the mystical and spiritual ethos of Glastonbury and its association with the legend of the Grail.

John Cowper Powys

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The finest novel by an Englishman in the 20th century

A powerful genius, whose novels stir us deeply

First published in 1929, Wolf Solent was the first in John Cowper Powys’ great sequence of visionary works of fiction, set in Hardy’s Wessex but a Wessex now ravaged by the impact of the Great War and the curse of modernity. Both a lyrical story of the English countryside and an agonised account of life and love in the shadow of monstrous change, Wolf Solent is a cult novel like no other.

Wolf Solent

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