POWYS, John Cowper.
Autobiography.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934.
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First Edition of John Cowper Powys's Autobiography
First edition of the eldest Powys brother's extraordinary autobiography, a candid, mystical, and unsparing account of his own inner life widely regarded as one of the strangest and most compelling memoirs in the language. Octavo, original cloth stamped in black. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
Autobiography (1934) is the most celebrated book by John Cowper Powys and one of the most singular memoirs in English literature. Rather than a conventional record of events, it is a searching and often startling examination of his own psyche, in which Powys lays bare his obsessions, manias, fears, and ecstasies with a candor few autobiographers have matched, while deliberately omitting the women in his life. Written during the years he spent as a spellbinding traveling lecturer in America, it stands alongside his great novels as a testament to his belief in the redemptive power of the imagination and the sensory intensity of ordinary life. John Cowper Powys (1872 to 1963), the eldest of the three literary Powys brothers, was a novelist, poet, and philosopher whose vast, mystical novels, among them Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance, and Weymouth Sands, won him a devoted following and a reputation as one of the great eccentrics of English letters.
Autobiography.
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