John Cowper Powys

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Regarded as a successor to Thomas Hardy, John Cowper Powys was a Welsh novelist and essayist, known chiefly for his long panoramic novels, including the masterpieces ‘Wolf Solent’ and ‘A Glastonbury Romance’. In his series of ‘Wessex Novels’, landscape plays a principal role, as does the elemental philosophy of his intriguing characters’ lives. He also wrote a critically acclaimed series of ‘Welsh Novels’, noted for their rich mythological and fantasy elements. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Powys’ complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

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Description

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Powys’ life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All 16 novels, with individual contents tables
* The complete Wessex and Welsh novels
* Rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare short stories available in no other collection
* Includes Powys’ rare poetry collection
* Seminal non-fiction, including the celebrated philosophical treatise ‘The Art of Happiness’
* Features Powys’ engaging ‘Autobiography’
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres

CONTENTS:

The Wessex Novels
Wolf Solent (1929)
A Glastonbury Romance (1933)
Weymouth Sands (1934)
Maiden Castle (1936)

The Welsh Novels
Morwyn (1937)
Owen Glendower (1941)
Porius (1951)

Other Novels
Wood and Stone (1915)
Rodmoor (1916)
Ducdame (1925)
The Inmates (1952)
Atlantis (1954)
The Brazen Head (1956)
Homer and the Aether (1959)
All or Nothing (1960)
After My Fashion (1980)

The Shorter Fiction
The Owl, The Duck, and – Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe! (1930)
Up and Out (1957)
Romer Mowl and Other Stories (1974)
Real Wraiths (1974)
Two and Two (1974)
You and Me (1975)
Three Fantasies (1985)

The Poetry Collection
Mandragora (1917)

The Non-Fiction
Visions and Revisions (1915)
Confessions of Two Brothers (1916)
Suspended Judgements (1916)
One Hundred Best Books (1916)
The Complex Vision (1920)
The Art of Happiness (1935)

The Autobiography
Autobiography (1934)

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