Physical description
Hard cover book. A Glastonbury Romance
Author: John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Macdonald & Co
Date: 1955
Further Information: Bound in solid cloth boards, light green dust Jacket featuring typographical mid-century graphic designs of Glastonbury, The spine has a Library label with an inscription.
Publication type
fiction
Inscriptions & markings
The label on the spine with typed text PAT 823 POW
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Public Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Summary
A Glastonbury Romance, original publication 1932/1933, is a sprawling, monumental modernist epic set in Somerset, England. It blends Arthurian myth, pagan lore, Christian symbolism, and early 20th-century industrial politics. The story centres on John Crow, his lover Mary, and a cast of dozens of townspeople in Glastonbury who become involved in a communal movement attempting to revive the Holy Grail legend as a spiritual force against corporate capitalism and industrial decay.
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References
- John Cowper Powys John Cowper Powys: the forgotten giant of English Fiction
- Powys Society.
- Goodreads.
- A Series of Series.
- Wikipedia.
