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One of the most quietly strange authors you'll find. Deep themes of sex and family in the modern world are overlaid by village life in rural Dorset. In many ways, the writer Hardy would might have been if he'd been born 40 years later. Wolf Solent is worth a look for anyone serious about pre-WWII literature.

>>By M@ (Monday, 28 Jul 2003 16:42)

I have read "Weymouth Sands", "A Glastonbury Romance", and "Wolf Solent", as well his "Autobiography", and consider him one of my favorite writers. He came from a family of writers, had quite a cult following, and toured the US in the early 20s (?) on a lecture tour. He is the English Tolstoy.

>>By runner (Thursday, 13 Jan 2005 18:51)

I have read the novels mentioned in "runner's" comment above . . . plus I even got hold of a copy of "Atlantis" through InterLibrary Loan . . . I think I waited the better part of a year for it to come in . . . it's really a Great Book . . . and I'm hoping Overlook will choose to re-release it sometime in the near future . . . our local bookstores just got in copies of "Glastonbury Romance" & "Owen Glendower" recently . . . as published by Overlook (see above) . . . I liked "Owen Glendower" a lot . . . there seemed to be a lot of deep Jungian things going on . . . ineptly phrased by me I'm sure . . . Powys style just lays hold of the reader over a number of pages . . . I can remember reading the denouement of "Glastonbury" at breakneck speed . . . and I would seriously consider giving it another reading sometime in the future . . . when time permits . . .
Hoping some of my remarks
might stimulate further discussion here ---
Yours ---
Sator

>>By satorotas (Friday, 28 Jan 2005 01:17)

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