Product Description
The novels of John Cowper Powys are like none other, containing the romantic extravagance and comic exuberance of the great nineteenth-century novels with the self-conscious depth and introspection of the great Modernists.
Maiden Castle is the story of Dud No-man, a historical novelist widowed after a yearlong unconsummated marriage to a woman who continues to haunt him. Inspired by pity and his own deep loneliness, Dud takes Wizzie Ravelston, an itinerant circus performer, into his home and heart. Yet even as the characters in Dorchester struggle with the perplexities of love, desire, and faith, it is the looming fortress of Maiden Castle that exerts the otherworldly force that irrevocably determines the course of their lives.
About the Author
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) lived in the U.S. as well as his native England, and was the author of ten novels, including
Porius, Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance, Weymouth Sands, as well as many works of criticism and philosophy.