num_pages: 1120
description: First published in 1932, here is John Cowper Powys's masterwork, an epic novel of terrific cumulative force and lyrical intensity. In it he interweaves the ancient with the modern as he probes the mystical and spiritual ethos of the small English village of Glastonbury and the effect upon its inhabitants of a mystical tradition from the most remote past of human history - the legend of the Grail - to create a book of astonishing scope and beauty. Panoramic in design, charged with scenes of great vividness and informed by Powys's own towering genius, A Glastonbury Romance is still astounding readers.
language: English
title: A Glastonbury Romance
titlecomplete: A Glastonbury Romance
characters: Sam Dekker, Red Robinson, John Crow, John Geard, Megan Geard, Will Zoyland, Mat Dekker, Dave Spear, Mary Crow (Glastonbury Romance), Tilly Crow, Nell Zoyland
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Mythology, 20th Century
ratings_count: 419
places: Dorset, England, Glastonbury, Somerset, England
series: Wessex
publisher: Overlook Press