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Porius.(Porius: A Novel)(Brief article)(Book review)
This immense, robustly imagined novel was whittled down by more than five hundred pages when it was first published, in 1951. Powys's original conception is here restored, a dense, complex merging of modern psychology and ancient mythology. In Wales in the year 499, the ruling Celts learn that the Saxons and the forest people are advancing against them; Porius, the son of the Celt prince, awaits the coming battle while ...
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