The novels of John Cowper Powys are like none other, containing the
romantic extravagance and comic exuberance of the great
nineteenth-century novels with the self-conscious depth and
introspection of the great Modernists. Maiden Castle portrays in
pointillist detail the complexities of sexual and romantic feeling
that bedevil an eccentric cast of characters, and explores the
psychological idiosyncrasies that fuel their hopes and dreams,
fantasies and failures.At the center of the novel is the aptly named
Dud No-man, a historical novelist widowed after a yearlong
unconsummated marriage to a woman who continues to haunt him.
Inspired by pity and his own deep loneliness, Dud takes Wizzie
Ravelston, an itinerant circus performer, into his home and heart.
Their awkward yet endearing efforts to create a life together unfold
in counterpoint to the romantic and familial relationships that
sizzle and simmer in the village of Dorchester. Yet even as the
characters in Maiden Castle struggle with the perplexities of love,
desire and faith-readjusting their sights and affections-it is the
looming fortress of Maiden Castle that exerts the otherworldly force
that irrevocably determines the course of their lives.4th in the
series of novels
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