Porius

John Cowper Powys

earliest edition we have, 1974 Olympic Marketing Corp, 1974 paperback

"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. Powys thought Porius his masterpiece, but because of the paper shortage after World War II and the novel's len...

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Porius paperback · 2011 · Overlook Duckworth · 768 pages · 9780715637326
Porius edition · 2007 · Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781585679959
Porius hardcover · 2007 · Overlook Duckworth · 751 pages · 9781585673667
Porius hardcover · 1994 · Colgate University Press · 873 pages · 9780912568164
Porius paperback · 1974 · Olympic Marketing Corp · 9789998183896

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