Mr. Weston's Good Wine - Softcover

Powys, T. F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434433919 ISBN 13: 9781434433916

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2013

Synopsis

Theodore Francis Powys (1875-1953) was a British writer from a family of writers, best know for his idiosyncratic Christian allegorical fantasy, Mr. Weston's Good Wine. John Carey of the Sunday Times called it "grimly brilliant," and many consider it a masterpiece.

About this title

About the Author:

T F Powys was a member of a distinguished literary family and the descendant of three generations of country parson. Although born in Derbyshire he spent almost the whole of his life in a remote Dorset village, where all his works were written. He died in 1953.

Review:

"Mr Weston's Good Wine is a book without parallel. It is an allegory, it is a bucolic farce, it is a religious (or anti-religious?) masterpiece" * A N Wilson * "The greatest value of his work, though, is in showing that it is still possible to write about the primordial human experiences to which religion is a response...Very few 20th-century authors have the knack of writing convincingly of first and last things. A religious writer without any vestige of belief, Theodore Powys is one of them" -- John Gray * New Statesman * "Grimly brilliant" -- John Carey * Sunday Times * "[It is] generally considered his masterpiece" * Washington Post *

About this edition

• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1434433919
• ISBN 13: 9781434433916
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326