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Wolf Solent

Wolf Solent

Summary

First published in 1929, Wolf Solent was the first in John Cowper Powys’ great sequence of visionary works of fiction, set in Hardy’s Wessex but a Wessex now ravaged by the impact of the Great War and the curse of modernity. Both a lyrical story of the English countryside and an agonised account of life and love in the shadow of monstrous change, Wolf Solent is a cult novel like no other.

Reviews

  • The finest novel by an Englishman in the 20th century
    Simon Heffer

About the author

John Cowper Powys

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