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
The Conduct of Major Maxim warms to Harry in this book, and provides invaluable assistance, but still tries to keep her distance from his domestic life. "The Conduct of Major Maxim" was the final installment in a series of novels based on a character originally developed for a projected BBC television series. The Conduct of Major Maxim The Conduct of Major Maxim is an espionage thriller novel by English author Gavin Lyall, first published in 1982, and the second of his series of novels with the character “Harry Maxim” as the protagonist. Former SAS Major Harry Maxim is assigned to Number 10 Downing Street, where