A Glastonbury Romance
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
At the crossroads of myth, mysticism, and the mundane, A Glastonbury Romance presents one of the most ambitious and sprawling narratives in twentieth-century English literature — a vast, visionary chronicle of an entire community drawn into the orbit of one of Britain's most sacred and storied sites. Set in the ancient Somerset town of Glastonbury, legendary resting place of King Arthur and the Holy Grail, the novel weaves together the lives of dozens of characters — lovers, mystics, politicians, and drifters — whose fates become intertwined with the town's mythic power, as a charismatic idealist attempts to stage a grand Arthurian pageant and establish a utopian commune. John Cowper Powys writes with an extraordinary, almost geological depth, layering personal psychology, nature mysticism, and cosmic philosophy into a narrative that pulses with elemental force. At over a thousand pages, this is a novel that does not merely tell a story — it constructs an entire world, alive with the tensions between the spiritual and the carnal, the ancient and the modern, the communal and the fiercely individual. Widely regarded as Powys's masterpiece and a towering achievement of modernist fiction, A Glastonbury Romance rewards patient readers with an experience unlike any other — one that leaves them wondering whether Glastonbury's ancient magic might, after all, be terrifyingly real.
Author: John Cowper Powys
Format: Hardback
Published: 1966
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
At the crossroads of myth, mysticism, and the mundane, A Glastonbury Romance presents one of the most ambitious and sprawling narratives in twentieth-century English literature — a vast, visionary chronicle of an entire community drawn into the orbit of one of Britain's most sacred and storied sites. Set in the ancient Somerset town of Glastonbury, legendary resting place of King Arthur and the Holy Grail, the novel weaves together the lives of dozens of characters — lovers, mystics, politicians, and drifters — whose fates become intertwined with the town's mythic power, as a charismatic idealist attempts to stage a grand Arthurian pageant and establish a utopian commune. John Cowper Powys writes with an extraordinary, almost geological depth, layering personal psychology, nature mysticism, and cosmic philosophy into a narrative that pulses with elemental force. At over a thousand pages, this is a novel that does not merely tell a story — it constructs an entire world, alive with the tensions between the spiritual and the carnal, the ancient and the modern, the communal and the fiercely individual. Widely regarded as Powys's masterpiece and a towering achievement of modernist fiction, A Glastonbury Romance rewards patient readers with an experience unlike any other — one that leaves them wondering whether Glastonbury's ancient magic might, after all, be terrifyingly real.