A Glastonbury Romance
$38.57
- Paperback
1200 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
Powys’ great visionary novel at last in Penguin Modern Classics
One of the great cult novels, a book that can be read and re-read throughout a lifetime, A Glastonbury Romance is John Cowper Powys’ masterpiece. Set in a beautifully imagined fictional version of the West Country, the novel inhabits a twentieth century under siege from older and stranger forces.
An epic work of terrific force and lyrical intensity, interweaving the ancient with the modern, the novel prob…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241784013 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241784018 |
| Author: | John Cowper Powys |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1200 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 806g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 129mm x 53mm |
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Critics Review
A truly extraordinary novel. It stands out indeed in a most astonishing way from the great mass of present-day fiction: a very earthquake of a book, bewildering, if you like, shocking, even infuriating, yet incontestably great…. It is a big book, an important book * The Times *
The only novel produced by an English writer that can fairly be compared with the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoyevski – George Steiner * The New Yorker *
John Cowper Powys is a writer who changes how you see the world – Michael Henderson * The Telegraph *
I read A Glastonbury Romance when I was 16 and it changed my life * Reverend Richard Coles *
The only novel produced by an English writer that can fairly be compared with Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky – George Steiner * The New Yorker *
A masterpiece … Open any page and you can find something wonderful. – Margaret Drabble * Daily Telegraph *
The Tolkien generation’s next adult novelist – Russell Hoban
Possibly the greatest novel of the twentieth century, and one of the great mystical masterpieces of all time. – Colin Wilson
I believe that A Glastonbury Romance is one of the greatest novels in the world, to be classed with Tolstoy’s War and Peace. – J.D. Beresford
About The Author
John Cowper Powys
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963)
John Cowper Powys was a novelist and poet known for his itinerant lifestyle. He spent several years as a successful lecturer, traveling extensively throughout the United States and Canada. His major novels include Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance, Weymouth Sands, and Maiden Castle.
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