Wolf Solent
$21.25
- Paperback
720 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
This world is made of clouds and of the shadows of clouds. It is made of mental landscapes, porous as air, where men and women are as trees walking, and as reeds shaken by the wind.
First published in 1929, Wolf Solent was the first in John Cowper Powys’ great sequence of visionary works of fiction, set in Hardy’s Wessex but a Wessex now ravaged by the impact of the Great War and the curse of modernity. Both a lyrical story of the English countryside and an agonised account o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241763018 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241763010 |
| Author: | A. Wilson, John Cowper Powys |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 720 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 487g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
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 *
About The Author
A. Wilson
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.
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