{"product_id":"wolf-solent-1","title":"Wolf Solent","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e \u003cspan\u003e\"A novelist of great, cumulative force and lyrical intensity. . . . Out of his rhapsodic style and keen attentiveness to nature, he builds a tower of prose to match the firmament.”—Washington Post Book World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1929, John Cowper Powys's novel of Eros and ideas was compared with works by Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, and D.H. Lawrence. Wolf Solent remains wholly unrivaled in its deft and risky balance of mysticism and social comedy, ecstatic contemplation of nature and unblinking observation of human folly and desire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e A novelist of great, cumulative force and lyrical intensity. . . . Out of his rhapsodic style and keen attentiveness to nature, he builds a tower of prose to match the firmament. -- The Washington Post Book World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe novel is a momentous piece of work . . . of transcendent interest and great beauty. -- The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe only book in the English language to rival Tolstoy. -- George Steiner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForsaking London for Ramsgard, Wolf Solent discovers a world of pagan splendor and medieval insularity, riddled by ancient scandals and resentments. And there this poetic young man meets two women—the sensuous beauty Gerda and the ethereal gamine Christie—who will become the sharers of his body and soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[Powys is] as domestic as Jane Austen, a genius like her at creating a cast of characters as part of a comedy and in a comic setting. . . . [He is] as billiant an explorer of our erotic being as D.H. Lawrence. -- The New York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books Prime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45922815869119,"sku":"d25ddf0f-eec0-4bc5-9767-93f4fe4191a0","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0761\/7550\/7647\/files\/99e5190e4091655f91d81110873feab6.jpg?v=1785191615","url":"https:\/\/books-prime.com\/products\/wolf-solent-1","provider":"Books Prime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}