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Condition
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear .”
ISBN
9780879516819

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Abrams, Inc.
ISBN-10
087951681X
ISBN-13
9780879516819
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13038796545

Product Key Features

Book Title
Glastonbury Romance
Number of Pages
1120 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary
Publication Year
1996
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Author
John Cowper Powys
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
2.2 in
Item Weight
37.5 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
87-005762
Dewey Edition
19
Reviews
The first modern paperback edition of "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 "To encounter [Powys] ... is to arrive at the very fount of creation. He makes us witness the consuming fire which rages throughout the universe entire and which gives not warmth nor enlightenment, but enduring vision, enduring strength, and enduring courage." --Henry Miller "This is a ... great novel. It stands as a gigantic rebuke to a time of minimum-risk writers and readers, and I hope that many among them will be encouraged to attempt it." -- The Chicago Tribune I am working my way slowly through [Powy s] works of which A Glastonbury Romance is the mightiest. Epic in length, this has an important contemporary resonance as all the makings of the modern Glastonbury legends, mirrored and enacted anew at the 1971 Glastonbury Fayre, are prefigured in this remarkable epic tale' Weymouth Sands is a book you can live with for a month or more and immerse yourself. Haunting and powerful, strange, absurd and mysterious. --The Generalist Blog
TitleLeading
A
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
823/.912
Synopsis
A Glastonbury Romance, first published in 1932, is Powys masterwork, an epic novel of terrific cumulative force and lyrical intensity., In it he probes the mystical and spiritual ethos of the small English village of Glastonbury, and the effect upon its inhabitants of a mythical tradition from the remotest past of human history - the legend of the Grail. Powys's rich iconography interweav
LC Classification Number
PR6019.O9

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