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Powys, Theodore Francis, 1875-1953

LC control no.n 50021842
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPR6031.O873
Personal name headingPowys, Theodore Francis, 1875-1953
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Variant(s)Powys, T. F., 1875-1953
Birth date1875-12-20
Death date1953-11-27
Place of birthShirley (Derbyshire, England)
Place of deathMappowder (England)
Profession or occupationNovelists
Found inHis 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 languageeng