Wolf Solent
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'A great literary masterpiece' A. N. Wilson
'A genius ... a fearless writer, who writes with reckless passion' Margaret Drabble
John Cowper Powys's epic Wolf Solent 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, Wolf Solent is also a meditation on life and death, good and evil, body and soul, combining the earthy and everyday with the spiritual.
'Wolf Solent is a stupendous and rather glorious book ... as beautiful and strange as an electric storm' V. S. Pritchett
About this Author
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.
Reviews
The finest novel by an Englishman in the 20th century--Simon Heffer
A powerful genius, whose novels stir us deeply--Annie Dillard
The novel is a momentous piece of work... of transcendent interest and great beauty--The New York Times
Wolf Solent is one of the very greatest 20th century novels... because it renders in an apparently traditional, fictional form some of the most distinctive and elusive experiences of late modern times--John Gray
From the very first paragraph I was gripped. I read it in one sitting, sitting up into the night once I returned home to finish it. It embodies all Powys's greatest characteristics: his profound understanding of human nature, his deep association with the English countryside and consonance with the English people; his relationship with mysticism and his atavistic regard for the past. But beyond that, his prose is perfect. It is one of the truly great English novels and should be a central part of our literary canon. I do not doubt that one day it will be--Simon Heffer
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