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Mystic sensations Chris Woodhead hopes this classic will win the quirky John Cowper Powys new fans
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Maiden Castle
by John Cowper Powys
The Overlook Press, pounds 25, 484 pp
pounds 25 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222
READERS NEW to the novels of John Cowper Powys should beware. The
dust-jacket blurb would have you believe that Maiden Castle, first
published in 1937 and now re-issued in an unabridged version, is a
cosy Mills & Boon romance. It is not. This is a dark, unsettling
book: a study of sexual and emotional impotence and of the human
desire to dominate and control.
The plot, for Powys, is relatively straightforward. The curiously
named Dud No-Man moves to Dorchester to write a ...
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