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John Cowper Powys. Wood and Stone
Wood and Stone
Table of Contents
PREFACE
WOOD AND STONE
CHAPTER I. LEO’S HILL
CHAPTER II. NEVILTON
CHAPTER III. OLYMPIAN CONSPIRACY
CHAPTER IV. REPRISALS FROM BELOW
CHAPTER V. FRANCIS TAXATER
CHAPTER VI. THE PARIAHS
CHAPTER VII. IDYLLIC PLEASURES
CHAPTER VIII. THE MYTHOLOGY OF SACRIFICE
CHAPTER IX. THE MYTHOLOGY OF POWER
CHAPTER X. THE ORCHARD
CHAPTER XI. ART AND NATURE
CHAPTER XII. AUBER LAKE
CHAPTER XIII. LACRIMA
CHAPTER XIV. UNDER-CURRENTS
CHAPTER XV. MORTIMER ROMER
CHAPTER XVI. HULLAWAY
CHAPTER XVII. SAGITTARIUS
CHAPTER XVIII. VOICES BY THE WAY
CHAPTER XIX. PLANETARY INTERVENTION
CHAPTER XX. VOX POPULI
CHAPTER XXI. CAESAR’S QUARRY
CHAPTER XXII. A ROYAL WATERING-PLACE
CHAPTER XXIII. AVE ATQUE VALE!
CHAPTER XXIV. THE GRANARY
CHAPTER XXV. METAMORPHOSIS
CHAPTER XXVI. VARIOUS ENCOUNTERS
CHAPTER XXVII. VENNIE SELDOM
CHAPTER XXVIII. LODMOOR
CHAPTER XXIX. THE GOAT AND BOY
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John Cowper Powys
A Romance
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It is impossible to tell. In this as in all other transactions of his life he combined an unworldly simplicity with a Machiavellian astuteness. If the Day of Judgment revealed him as being on the side of the angels, it might also reveal him as having exercised, in the microcosmic Nevilton drama, as well as in his wider sphere, one of the most subtle influences against the Powers of Darkness that those Powers ever encountered in their invisible activity.
At the moment when the present narrative takes up the woven threads of these various persons’ lives there seemed every prospect that in external nature at least there was going to be an auspicious and halcyon season. June had opened with abnormal pleasantness. Exquisite odours were in the air, wafted from woods and fields and gardens. White dust, alternating with tender spots of coolness where the shadows of trees fell, lent the roads in the vicinity that leisured gala-day expectancy which one notes in the roads of France and Spain, but which is so rare in England.
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