Along with Wolf Solen,' 'A Glastonbury Romance,' and 'Maiden Castle,' this modern classic originally published in 1934, forms the quartet that 'are just about the only novels produced by an English writer that can be fairly compared with the fictions of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.' (George Steiner). 'To encounter Powys is to arrive at the very fount of creation.' - Henry Miller '...is one of the very few English novelists of the last fifty years of whom it could be said that they have not talent but genius.' - J B Priestley'
- ISBN10 0060911646
- ISBN13 9780060911645
- Publish Date 1 January 1984 (first published December 1979)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers
- Edition Harper Colophon ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 567
- Language English