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A sensitive child, Powys was not happy in school and left when he was 15 to become an apprentice on a farm in
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368:. London: Chatto and Windus, 1923; New York: Knopf, 1923.
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University of Aberdeen Library. Letters to J. B. Chapman.
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386:. London: Chatto and Windus, 1925; New York: Knopf, 1925.
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Encyclopedia of British Writers, 19th and 20th Centuries
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Behind the Veil of Familiarity: C.S. Lewis (1898–1998)
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Frank Kermode, "The Art of Theodore Powys, Ironist".
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T. F. Powys (1875–1953): La solitude, le doute, l'art
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315:as one of the three main writers – along with
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197:, cousin and close friend of the poet
1023:"Bookmarks: John Gray on T. F. Powys"
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528:Selected Early Works of T. F. Powys
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478:. London: Chatto and Windus, 1935.
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757:Unclay, or the Unconditional Gift
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476:Captain Patch: Twenty-one Stories
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652:. Paris: Didier-érudition, 1981.
545:T. F. Powys: A Modern Allegorist
482:Bottle's Path, and Other Stories
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673:Theodore: Essays on T. F. Powys
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512:Mock's Curse: Nineteen Stories
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547:. Rodopi: Amsterdam, 1986.
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351:Soliloquies of a Hermit
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692:Ward, Richard Heron.
678:Scutt, Theodora Gay.
518:The Sixpenny Strumpet
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