id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5521 John Cowper Powys - Wikipedia .html text/html 7054 744 72 While he was a famous lecturer and published a variety of both fiction and non-fiction regularly from 1915, it was not until he was in his early fifties, with the publication of Wolf Solent in 1929, that he achieved critical and financial success as a novelist.[34] This novel was reprinted several times in both the United States and Britain and translated into German in 1930 and French in 1931.[35] In the Preface he wrote for the 1961 Macdonald edition of the novel Powys states: "Wolf Solent is a book of Nostalgia, written in a foreign country with the pen of a traveller and the ink-blood of his home".[36] Wolf Solent is set in Ramsgard, based on Sherborne, Dorset, where Powys attended school from May 1883, as well as Blacksod, modelled on Yeovil, Somerset, and Dorchester and Weymouth, both in Dorset, all places full of memories for him.[37] In the same year The Meaning of Culture was published and it, too, was frequently reprinted. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5521.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5521.txt