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"Porius stood upon the low square tower above the Southern Gate of Mynydd-y-Gaer, and looked down on the wide stretching valley below." So begins one of the most unique novels of twentieth-century literature, by one of its most "extraordinary, neglected geniuses," said Robertson Davies of John Cowper Powys.
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- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- John Cowper Powys
- First published
- 1951
- Pages
- 751
- Publisher
- Macdonald, Philosophical Library/Macdonald, Philosophical Library
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780715637326
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