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Autobiography
"Autobiography conveys Powys's contagious excitement of his discovery of books and men and his unceasing discovery of himself as well as fascination reminiscences of the remarkable journeys, both geographic and intellectual of his life.
Paperback
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672 pages
Published
January 1st 1982
by Pan Books
(first published 1934)
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Autobiography is not a book to be taken lightly, nor should one expect what one usually receives from other books of this "genre." I have written a longer review:
http://descriptedlines.com/reading/au...
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I like John's individualism (which he thoroughly believes in despite being pro-communism), his mysticism (talks to trees, worships idols, believes in something other than the astronomical plane), his honesty with his flaws (especially his sadistic thoughts that barely ever were acted on), his fear of having a place to urinate, his child's way of interacting with the world despite what systems rules it, his love/hate for pretty tame adult books, his love of walking into the unknown and secret cor
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Jul 31, 2014
Velma
marked it as tbr-someday-maybe
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review of another edition
Recommended to Velma by:
Margaret Drabble, The Guardian
How to read Powys:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2006...
one of the strangest autobiographies I have ever read
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Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar. His mother was descended from the poet William Cowper, hence his middle name. His two younger brothers, Llewelyn Powys and Theodore Francis Powys, also became well-known writers. Other brothers and sisters also became prominent in the arts. John studied at Sherborne School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and became a teacher
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