In the village of Nevilton, under the shadow of Leo’s Hill and its quarries, the rich and domineering quarry-owner Mortimer Romer and his daughter Gladys set out to bend others to their will, while a circle of poorer, gentler outsiders resists. Powys frames the story as a contest between Nietzschean power and the way of love and sacrifice.
The first novel of the author of A Glastonbury Romance, already full of his strange intensity. Download the free EPUB.