Suspended Judgments: Essays On Books And Sensations by John Cowper PowysRequirements: PDF Reader, 921 KBOverview: The world divides itself into people who can discriminate and people who cannot discriminate. This is the ultimate test of sensitiveness; and sensitiveness alone separates us and unites us. We all create, or have created for us by the fatality […]
Autobiography by John Cowper PowysRequirements: EPUB Reader, 874kbOverview: ‘I have tried to write my life as if I were confessing to a priest, a philosopher, and a wise old woman. I have tried to write as if I were going to be executed when it was finished. I have tried to write it as if […]
5 Books by John Cowper PowysRequirements: EPUB Reader, 2.2mbOverview: John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) was born in Derbyshire, brought up in the West Country (the Somerset/Dorset border area was to have a lasting influence on him), went to Cambridge University and then became a teacher and lecturer mainly in the USA where he lived for about […]
Atlantis by John Cowper PowysRequirements: ePUB / MOBI Reader, 1.0MBOverview: Published in 1954, John Cowper Powys called this novel, a ‘long romance about Odysseus in his extreme old age, hoisting sail once more from Ithaca’. As usual there is a large cast of human characters but Powys also gives life and speech to inanimates such […]
Weymouth Sands by John Cowper Powys (Wessex #3)Requirements: ePUB or MOBI Reader, 1.4MBOverview: Drawing on his vivid childhood memories of the seaside town of Weymouth, Powys creates a striking collection of human oddities, through which he shows his deep sympathy for the variety, the eccentricity, the essential loneliness of human beings.”Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Modernism, Mythopoeia […]
