John Cowper Powys 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", the last of the Wessex novels, is set in Dorchester, Thomas Hardy's Casterbridge, and which he intended to be a "rival" to Hardy's "Mayor of Casterbridge". All the same, despite his indebtedness to the Victorian novel and his enthusiasm for Hardy and Walter Scott, as well as for lesser figures such as Ainsworth, Powys was clearly a modernist, and has affinities also with Fyodor
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,