{"title":"Books by John Cowper Powys","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780241763018","title":"Wolf Solent","description":"\u003cb\u003e  'A great literary masterpiece' A. N. Wilson \u003cbr\u003e'A genius ... a fearless writer, who writes with reckless passion' Margaret Drabble\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Cowper Powys's epic \u003ci\u003eWolf Solent\u003c\/i\u003e centres around the story of a young man returning to his roots in the West Country after ten years in London. Complex, romantic and humorous, it is peopled with memorable characters and filled with vivid, primitive descriptions of landscape. But beyond this powerful evocation of people and place, \u003ci\u003eWolf Solent\u003c\/i\u003e is also a meditation on life and death, good and evil, body and soul, combining the earthy and everyday with the spiritual.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Wolf Solent\u003c\/i\u003e is a stupendous and rather glorious book … as beautiful and strange as an electric storm' V. S. Pritchett","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55206166790517,"sku":"9780241763018","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241763018.jpg?v=1786012458"},{"product_id":"9780241784013","title":"A Glastonbury Romance","description":"\u003cb\u003e‘Truly extraordinary … a very earthquake of a book … incontestably great’ \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePowys' great visionary novel, now in Penguin Modern Classics\u003c\/b\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the great cult novels, a book that can be read and re-read throughout a lifetime, \u003ci\u003eA Glastonbury Romance\u003c\/i\u003e is John Cowper Powys' masterpiece. Set in a beautifully imagined fictional version of the West Country, the novel inhabits a twentieth century under siege from older and stranger forces.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn epic work of terrific force and lyrical intensity, interweaving the ancient with the modern, the novel probes the mystical and spiritual ethos of Glastonbury and its association with the legend of the Grail. At the heart of the book is the vision of one man, who wishes to make Glastonbury again the great pilgrimage centre it once was. But what really lies in this powerful landscape and why did so many men and women once come to it seeking redemption?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe edition used for this Penguin Classics edition is the original 1932 American text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ‘A masterpiece ... Open any page and you can find something wonderful’ Margaret Drabble\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Possibly the greatest novel of the twentieth century, and one of the great mystical masterpieces of all time’ Colin Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘To encounter Powys ... is to arrive at the very fount of creation’ Henry Miller","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367896428917,"sku":"9780241784013","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241784013_f10f9c1b-b772-48ec-b7fc-f6c4f47069d4.jpg?v=1786012738"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-john-cowper-powys.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}