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T.F. Powys

Born

in Shirley, Devonshire, The United Kingdom

December 20, 1875

Died

November 27, 1953

Genre

Fiction, Fantasy, Classics

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Theodore Francis Powys, published as T. F. Powys, was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys (1843–1923), vicar of Montacute, Somerset, for 32 years, and Mary Cowper Johnson, grand-daughter of Dr John Johnson, cousin and close friend of the poet William Cowper. He was one of eleven talented siblings, including the novelist John Cowper Powys (1872–1963) and the novelist and essayist Llewelyn Powys (1884–1939).
A sensitive child, Powys was not happy in school and left when he was 15 to become an apprentice on a farm in Suffolk. Later he had his own farm in Suffolk, but he was not successful and returned to Dorset in 1901 with plans to be a writer. Then, in 1905, he married Violet Dodd. They had two sons and ...more

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	Mr Weston's Good Wine 3.54 avg rating — 314 ratings — published 1927 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unclay 3.91 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 1931 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gli dei di Mr. Tasker by T.F. Powys, Adriana Motti (Translator) 3.76 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1924 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La gamba sinistra by T.F. Powys, Adriana Motti (Translator) 3.41 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1923 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soliloquies of a Hermit 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1975 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kindness in a Corner 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1930 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God's Eyes a-twinkle: An Anthology of the Stories of T.F.Powys 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1947 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fables 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1929 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Captain Patch: Twenty-one stories 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 269 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Bryony 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1923 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When God's finger first stirred the pudding," answered Death, with a smile, "He let a tear fall in by mistake, and that tear became man's consciousness.”
― T.F. Powys, Unclay

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“Mr.Tasker worshipped pigs, and a great many of his gods, fat and lean, were always in the fields round his house. He killed his gods himself, and with great unction he would have crucified them if he could have bled them better that way and so have obtained a larger price.”
― T.F. Powys, Gli dei di Mr. Tasker

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“A bed has a friendly and benign look: it wishes to be kind.”
― T.F. Powys, Unclay

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