Drawing on his vivid childhood memories of the seaside town of Weymouth, author John Cowper Powys creates a striking collection of human oddities, through which

Literature reveals that the hidden strings of the human `passional soul' are the creative source of the specifically human existence. Continuing the inquiry int

This work is a collection of essays on the work of John Cowper Powys, the English novelist and Nobel nominee. The critical intention of these essays is to provi

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