British regional literature of London and the south of England. John Cowper Powys has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and "Wolf Solent", "A Glastonbury Romance" (1932), along with "Weymouth Sands" (1934) and "Maiden Castle" (1936), are often referred to as his Wessex novels. As with Hardy's novels, the landscape plays a major role in Powys's works, and an elemental philosophy is important in the lives of his characters. Powys's first novel "Wood and Stone" was dedicated to Thomas Hardy. "Maiden Castle", the last of the Wessex novels, is set in Dorchester, Thomas Hardy's Casterbridge, and which he intended to be
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,