KINDNESS IN A CORNER by T.F. Powys

With an Introduction by Dr Glen Cavaliero*

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A paperback of 224 pages

ISBN-10: 0955152356 

ISBN-13: 9780955152351

Dimensions: 210x140mm

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Kindness in a Corner was originally published in 1930; after T.F Powys’s best known creation Mr Weston’s Good Wine and just before his final masterpiece Unclay. It is the author's most benign novel, abundantly infused with light comedy and wry, mordant humour, and it contains one breath-taking chapter in particular which many critics and readers consider one of the finest and most astonishing passages in all English literature. Perhaps, rather appropriately, Powys dedicated the novel to his dear friend Sylvia Townsend Warner.

'Kindness in a Corner is among the most purely enjoyable of Powys’s books and is thus a good introduction to its author’s rustic world. On the face of it a quaint and mannered piece of amiable literary whimsy full of touches of light satire, it introduces us to an absent-minded scholarly bachelor clergyman, devoted to his books, to his armchair, and to his dinner, a man who lives in a benevolent tranquility cared for by a tactful housekeeper … but for all its playfulness this is a novel that deals in the profounder human issues.’ – From the Introduction by Glen Cavaliero*

REVIEWS: ‘Kindness in a Corner is one of author Theodore Francis Powys’s best books: witty without malice, simple without silliness, kindly without sentimentality.’ – Time

‘Theodore Powys is a master of English, and for this, for the exquisite texture of expression, he should be read, if for nothing else. But the reading will disclose much else, and especially a genius so rare it seems not of this earth, a humanness of spirit not frequently to be encountered, and a wit so exotic it will seem at times little other than perverse. And Kindness in a Corner displays all the Powys characteristics in their fullness and at their best.’ – New York Times

To read the full review of KINDNESS IN A CORNER from The New York Times published March 23, 1930 please click here where a PDF file will open in a new window

*GLEN CAVALIERO, Fellow Commoner of St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge, is a noted poet and critic. Among his books are The Supernatural and English Fiction (1995), The Alchemy of Laughter (2000) and Charles Williams: Poet of Theology (reissued, 2007). His most recent collection of poems is The Justice of the Night (2007). 

KINDNESS IN A CORNER

T.F. Powys

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