Owen Glendower
Download or Read eBook Owen Glendower PDF written by John Cowper Powys and published by New York : Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1940 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : John Cowper Powys |
| Publisher | : New York : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 1940 |
| ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015002709999 |
| ISBN-13 | : |
| Rating | : 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Owen Glendower by : John Cowper Powys
Book excerpt: It is the year 1400, and Wales is on the brink of a bloody revolt. At a market fair on the banks of the River Dee, a gathering of peasants, bards, prophets, heretics, and soldiers, a mad rebel priest and his beautiful companion are condemned to be burned at the stake. To their rescue rides the unlikely figure of Rhisiart, a young Oxford scholar whose fate will be entangled with that of Owen Glendower, the last true Prince of Wales, a man called, at times against his will, to fulfill the prophesied role of national redeemer
