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Bought this. What am I in for?

>> No.16920889

>>16920748
You'll either love it or hate it. Not everyone has the Powys gene.

>> No.16921033

>>16920748
YOU ALREADY MADE THIS THREAD, YOU FAGGOT. HOW ABOUT YOU READ IT AND TELL US IF IT'S WORTH BUYING.

>> No.16921045

I didn’t know men were even still allowed to write novels, so that’s interesting.

>> No.16921150

>>16921045
it was written 88 years ago

>> No.16921157

>>16920748
Read it and find out. Powys is a very love or hate writer but I can safely say he writes like no one else. It's the kind of book that telescopes between everyday tedium and cosmic mysticism in the space of a sentence. He creates a huge spread of characters presented vividly and dispassionately (and sometimes forgets where he puts them). It's a hybrid between Victorian and Modernist writing that blatantly ignores many of the rules for both and his ultimate aim is to bridge the sacred and the mundane.

>> No.16921167

Powys's top 100 books:
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12914/pg12914-images.html

>> No.16921290

>>16921167
Thanks

>> No.16921486

Bump

>> No.16921497

Fuck off and read the book, there's nothing else to talk about here.

>> No.16921802

i can't believe there aren't any retail copies of the wessex series or porius or owen glendower available to pirate

>> No.16921847

>>16920748
What's the name of the painting used as cover for this book?

>> No.16921946

>>16921802
In the US they used to be handled by Overlook Press but I imagine those editions are out of print. Every once in a great while I stumble on a Powys book in a used bookstore.

>> No.16921970

>>16921946
those novels seem to be handled by the powys society, they released editions last year. his other works seem to be owned by faber (of which all are piratable).

>> No.16922256

>>16921167
there's a lot here i've never heard of.

>> No.16923480

>>16921970
Guess Overlook let the license expire or something? The Faber prints tend to be his "minor" work, barring the autobiography.