Mr Weston's Good Wine
  • Published: 1 October 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099589655
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99

Mr Weston's Good Wine

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A unique, timeless work and a masterpiece of religious allegory

Among the residents of a small Dorset town called Folly Down, an unlikely struggle between the forces of good and evil is taking place. For a single winter's evening, Time stands still and the bitter-sweet gift of awareness descends upon the people. Because Mr Weston the wine merchant has come to town and the advert atop his Ford van lights up the sky above the village. Whether the villagers choose to buy Mr Weston's light or dark wine is up to them.
  • Published: 1 October 2014
  • ISBN: 9780099589655
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the author

T.F. Powys

T F Powys was a member of a distinguished literary family and the descendant of three generations of country parson. Although born in Derbyshire he spent almost the whole of his life in a remote Dorset village, where all his works were written. He died in 1953.

Praise for Mr Weston's Good Wine

Mr Weston's Good Wine is a book without parallel. It is an allegory, it is a bucolic farce, it is a religious (or anti-religious?) masterpiece

A N Wilson, Daily Telegraph

The greatest value of his work, though, is in showing that it is still possible to write about the primordial human experiences to which religion is a response...Very few 20th-century authors have the knack of writing convincingly of first and last things. A religious writer without any vestige of belief, Theodore Powys is one of them

John Gray, New Statesman

Grimly brilliant

John Carey, Sunday Times

[It is] generally considered his masterpiece

Washington Post

A writer who far outshone his contemporaries

Spectator

Mr Weston’s Good Wine turned the tide commercially...and it was an artistic success too

Times Literary Supplement

One of the strangest and most delightful books I’ve ever read

John Gray, Guardian