By John Cowper Powys
Rodmoor is, strangely for a John Cowper Powys novel, set in East Anglia, Rodmoor itself being a coastal village. The protagonist, Adrian Sorio, is a mostly Powys-like hero, highly-strung with in simple terms precarious psychological balance. he's in love with ladies - Nance Herrick and the extra unconventional Phillipa Renshaw. This was once Powys moment novel, released in 1916. It deploys a wealthy and noteworthy solid of characters.
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I collected from my friend the following details. " To begin," says he, " with the end—of all things. Death hath swept away LEONTES, BAROCCIO,SEMPRONIUS, ARCHIMEDES, MELIADUS, and PALERMO.! They were six brave bookwarriors in their day ; men who, at sundry sales which need not now be named, used to Flame in the front, or thunder in the rear! " Perceiving * " Insatiate Archer ! "—YOUNG. , and John North, Esq. Their libraries were all sold by auction; the first and the last being by much the most costly in the produce.
But oh, that splendid MS. ioiaiv lUaOai"*—exclaimed I, as, on turning my eyes in an opposite direction, I essayed to see the numerous folios and quartos—some of which were impervious to the glorious sun-beam. Having lost my list of memoranda, taken on the spot, I grieve to say that my account of this classical retreat must be thus superficial. But it is only the performance of an act of common justice to add, that the Falernian and Mark Brenner of Priscian crowned the evening's hospitality of his abode.
It was all in vain. There was no resisting the tide of fashion, or the force of custom:—call it as you might. Clear it was to him, that the dwarf had vanquished the giant—and that Laputa was lording it over Brobdignag. * On quit* Mr. Murray, like the best of us, may have his capriccios ; but I KNOW him to possess as warm a heart, and as munifi- 32 ting his premises, I observed palpable proofs of the absence of those "goodly quartos," which, in former times, the public used to anticipate with such eager curiosity—and which, as containing a BODY OF TRAVELS, were the ornament—and will long continue to be the ornament—of every well-furnished Library.