John Cowper Powys

Author Information
John Cowper Powys's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1984
  • Latest Book:
    November 2019
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • Weymouth Sands

  • Wolf Solent

    Often described as one of the great apocalyptic novels of our time, "Wolf Solent" is the story of a young man returning from London to work near to the school at which his father had been history master. Complex, romantic and humorous, it is a classi...

  • Glastonbury Romance

    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 inte...

  • Owen Glendower

  • The Meaning of Culture

    'Mr. Powys is to be congratulated on having written a book of the kind that most needs writing and most deserves to be read...Here in a dozen chapters of eloquent and glowing prose, Mr. Powys describes for every reader that citadel which is himself, ...

  • Porius

    A restored and unabridged edition of the author's historical work is set at the turn of the sixth century in a Roman fort in North Wales, where Porius, the son of the reigning prince, is aided by the magicians Merlin, Nineue, and Medrawd in a battle ...

  • After My Fashion

    After My Fashion has an unusual publishing history. Although it was John Cowper Powys' third novel and written in 1920, it wasn't published until 1980. It seems that when his US publisher turned it down Powys made no effort to place it elsewhere. Ind...

  • Rodmoor

    Rodmoor is, unusually for a John Cowper Powys novel, set in East Anglia, Rodmoor itself being a coastal village.The protagonist, Adrian Sorio, is a typically Powys-like hero, highly-strung with only precarious mental stability. He is in love with two...

  • Wood and Stone

    Wood and Stone was John Cowper Powys' first novel published in 1915. It is no prentice-work however - the author was already in his forties. The novel is set in the area of south Somerset that John Cowper Powys grew up in. The village of Nevilton is ...



  • Atlantis

    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...

  • The Brazen Head

    In this panoramic novel of Friar Roger Bacon, John Cowper Powys displays his genius at its most fecund. First published in 1956, this novel, set in thirteenth-century Wessex, is an amalgam of all the qualities that make John Cowper Powys unique. The ...

  • Ducdame

    Ducdame was John Cowper Powys' fourth novel published in 1925. It is set in Dorset. The protagonist, Rook Ashover (a wonderfully Powysian name) is an introverted young squire with a dilemma: to go on loving his mistress, Netta Page, or, make a respec...

  • The Inmates

    What I've tried to do in this tale is to invent a group of really mad people who have the fantastic and grotesquely humorous extravagance that, afer all, is an element in life'. So wrote John Cowper Powys himself in his prefatory note to this novel f...

  • Morwyn

    First published in 1937, John Cowper Powys originally wanted to call this novel 'Hell'. One can see why. Powys was a fervent opponent of vivisection, 'man's most vicious cruelty', and here, in this strange fantasy, he gives full vent to his feelings....

  • Maiden Castle

    From the genius mind of John Cowper Powys, at long last a paperback of the classic novel of life, love, and an earthwork fortress with a bizarre power of influence The novels of John Cowper Powys are like none other, containing the romantic extravag...

  • Visions and Revisions: a Book of Literary Devotions

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • One Hundred Best Books

    " ...] Would to God the mortal days of geniuses like Dostoievsky could be so extended that for all the years of one's life, one would have such works, still not quite finished, in one's lucky hands I sometimes doubt whether these sticklers for "the ...

  • The Owl, the Duck, and - Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe!

    In this extraordinary piece all of John Cowper Powys' eccentric and wild inventiveness is on display.

    In a small flat in New York in the 1920s an old couple, former circus performers, live a crotchety life of poverty and fear. The ones they ...

  • The Complex Vision

    • / Fantasy
    • Buy Buy

    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Cowper Powys has published 19 books.

John Cowper Powys does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Owl, the Duck, and - Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe!, was published in November 2019.

The first book by John Cowper Powys, Weymouth Sands, was published in September 1984.

No. John Cowper Powys does not write books in series.
Top Authors in Literary
No ads, please...

$20 / year

FictionDB Premium Membership

Subscribe