a_glastonbury_romance | mediatype | hardcover <tsp> a_glastonbury_romance | isbn_number | '0-7156-3648-0' <sep> a glastonbury romance was written by john cowper powys (1873–1963) in rural upstate new york and first published by simon and schuster in new york city  in march 1932 an english edition published by john lane followed in 1933 it has 'nearly half-a-million words' and was described as 'probably the longest undivided novel in english'it is the second of powys's  wessex novels, along with wolf solent (1929), weymouth sands (1934) and maiden castle (1936) powys was an admirer of thomas hardy and these novels are set in somerset and dorset, parts of hardy's mythical wessex the action occurs over roughly a year, and the first two chapters of a glastonbury romance take place in norfolk, where the late canon william crow's will is read, and the crow family learn that his secretary-valet john geard has inherited his wealth 
a glastonbury romance identified by isbn 0-7156-3648-0 was published in hardcover.no information