Owen Glendower

Download or read book Owen Glendower written by John Cowper Powys and published by New York : Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1940 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the year 1400, and Wales is on the brink of a bloody revolt. At a market fair on the banks of the River Dee, a gathering of peasants, bards, prophets, heretics, and soldiers, a mad rebel priest and his beautiful companion are condemned to be burned at the stake. To their rescue rides the unlikely figure of Rhisiart, a young Oxford scholar whose fate will be entangled with that of Owen Glendower, the last true Prince of Wales, a man called, at times against his will, to fulfill the prophesied role of national redeemer