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Love and Death: An Imaginary Autobiography
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320 pages
Published
September 10th 2010
by Kessinger Publishing
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I first read a library copy of this book many years ago, and then last year, a friend in England sent me a 1st edition. Reading it again, I loved it as I loved it the first time. Llewelyn Powys was, and remains, one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century. It's the story of first love a bit later in life. When the book was published in the 1930s, the reviews were mixed. Llewelyn was known, insofar as he was known at all, as as pagan essayist. It may be to your taste, or maybe not. The Am
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A man is dying of tuberculosis, a disease that in the earlier part of the 20th century had no cure. While on his death bed he remembers a poignant love affair from his youth with the sweet innocent loving yet natural Dittany. The story is very erotic in a way that surprised me because it is also tinged with innocence. Today's generation simply would not get it I fear.
Modern readers may struggle with the language in this book. I didn't. Beautifully and poetically written, sometimes his sentences ...more
Modern readers may struggle with the language in this book. I didn't. Beautifully and poetically written, sometimes his sentences ...more
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Llewelyn Powys was a British novelist and essayist. He was the younger brother of the writers
John Cowper Powys
and
T.F. Powys
and a descendent of the poet
William Cowper
.
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