Maiden Castle (novel) Maiden Castle (novel) Maiden Castle by John Cowper Powys was first published in 1936 and is the last of Powys so-called Wessex novels, following "Wolf Solent" (1929), "A Glastonbury Romance" (1932), "Weymouth Sands" (1934). Powys was an admirer of Thomas Hardy, and these novels are set in Somerset and Dorset, part of Hardy's mythical Wessex. American scholar Richard Maxwell describes these four novels "as remarkably successful with the reading public of his time". "Maiden Castle" is set in Dorchester, Dorset Thomas Hardy's Casterbridge, and which Powys intended to be a "rival" to Hardy's "Mayor of Casterbridge". Glen Cavaliero describes Dorchester
Yuri Nikitin (author) short stories can be found in English on the web, e. g. "Sisyphus" translated by David Schwab. In 2013, a group of Nikitin’s fans, with the author’s consent, translated into English "The Holy Grail" (title changed to "The Grail of Sir Thomas") and offered it as a free e-book on a range of online SFF forums. As of June 2014, the English versions of three novels by Yury Nikitin ("In the Very Beginning", "The Grail of Sir Thomas", "The Secret of Stonehenge") are available as e-books in major online retailers. Yuri Nikitin (author) Yuri Aleksandrovich Nikitin (), born November 30,