LC control no. | n 50021842 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PR6031.O873 |
Personal name heading | Powys, Theodore Francis, 1875-1953 |
Variant(s) | Powys, T. F., 1875-1953 |
Birth date | 1875-12-20 |
Death date | 1953-11-27 |
Place of birth | Shirley (Derbyshire, England) |
Place of death | Mappowder (England) |
Profession or occupation | Novelists |
Found in | His Captain Patch, 1935: t.p. (T.F. Powys) Scènes de chasse en famille, 2003: title page (Theodore Francis Powyn) page 2, cover (Theodore Francis Powyn 1975-1953) page 423 (Theodore Francis Powyn Le clé du champ & autres nouvelles (1930)) Wikipedia, viewed Feb. 13, 2017 (Theodore Francis Powys, born December 20, 1875 in Shirley, Derbyshire; died November 27, 1953 in Mappowder, Dorset, England; published as T. F. Powys, was a British novelist and short-story writer. He is best remembered for his allegorical novel Mr. Weston's Good Wine (1927), where Weston the wine merchant is evidently God. Powys was influenced by the Bible, John Bunyan, Jonathan Swift and other writers of the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as later writers such as Thomas Hardy and Friederich Nietzsche) |
Associated language | eng |