Earth Memories (Nature Classics Library) - Softcover

Powys, Llewlyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908213221 ISBN 13: 9781908213228

Publisher: Little Toller Books, 2015

Synopsis

In 1931, after two decades of wandering the world, Llewelyn Powys moved into an isolated cottage in Dorset, where he embarked on a series of essays embracing what he called 'the poetry of life'. In their evocations of land and sea, of childhood and old age, of wildlife, they are a poignant love letter to the English Countryside.

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About the Author

Llewelyn Powys was born in Dorchester, Dorset, the eighth child in a family that included the novelists John Cowper Powys and T. F. Powys. He grew up in Somerset, and was educated at Sherborne School and Cambridge University. At 25 he contracted tuberculosis and spent many years abroad in drier climates. He first made his name as a writer with Black Laughter and Skin for Skin, and spent most of the 1930s in England writing for numerous journals, gathering some of his pieces into the collections Earth Memories, Dorset Essays and Somerset Essays. With these he established a reputation as one of the most eloquent and thought-provoking writers of his time. His last three years were spent in Switzerland where he finished his autobiographical novel Love and Death, published shortly before he died. His ashes are interred on a Dorset cliff top and marked by a memorial stone.

Edition details

• Publisher: Little Toller Books
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908213221
• ISBN 13: 9781908213228
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192