Owen Glendower

Owen Glendower by Powys, John Cowper. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781585673148.

John Cowper Powys has been described as a novelist of great, cumulative force and lyrical intensity . . . out of his rhapsodic style and keen attentiveness to nature, he builds a tower of prose to match the firmament (The Washington Post). Owen Glendower is his brilliant re-imagining of the life and exploits of Waless national hero. It is the year 1400, and Wales is on the brink of a bloody revolt. At a market fair on the banks of the River Dee a mad rebel priest and his beautiful companion are condemned to be burned at the stake. To their rescue rides the unlikely figure of Rhisiart, a young Oxford scholar, whose fate will be entangled with that of Owen Glendower, the last true Prince of Wales--a man called, at times against his will, to fulfill the prophesied role of national redeemer. Psychologically complex, sensuous in its language, vivid in its evocation of a period shrouded by myth, Owen Glendower tells a compelling story of war, love, and magic.