wolf solent is a novel by john cowper powys (1872–1963) that was written while he was based in patchin place, new york city, and travelling around the us as a lecturer.it was published by simon and schuster in may 1929 in new york.the british edition, published by jonathan cape, appeared in july 1929.this, powys's fourth novel, was his first literary success.it is a bildungsroman in which the eponymous protagonist, a thirty-five-year-old history teacher, returns to his birthplace, where he discovers the inadequacy of his dualistic philosophy.wolf resembles john cowper powys in that an elemental philosophy is at the centre of his life and, because, like powys, he hates science and modern inventions like cars and planes, and is attracted to slender, androgynous women.wolf solent is the first of powys's four wessex novels.powys both wrote about the same region as thomas hardy and was a twentieth-century successor to the great nineteenth-century novelist.the novel is set in the fictional towns of ramsgard, dorset, based on sherborne, dorset, where powys attended school from may 1883, blacksod, modelled on yeovil, somerset, and kings barton, modelled on bradford abbas, dorset.it has references to other places in dorset like dorchester and weymouth that were also full of memories for powys.there were six impressions of the first edition (american) between 1929 and 1930 and three of the british edition in 1929.there were translations into german (1930, french (1931), and several other european languages.however, powys had to cut 318 pages from his typescript before wolf solent was published by simon and schuster.these pages (amounting to six chapters) were hastily condensed into a revised chapter 19 ‘wine’ for its first publication.they were eventually published with editorial commentary in july 2021, but no attempt has been made as yet to incorporate them into an updated complete wolf solent.some variations to the plot — particularly the disfigurement of gerda, which is only referred to in the deleted chapters — make such an integration problematic.following the success of wolf solent three of powys's works of popular philosophy were also best-sellers: the meaning of culture (1929), in defence of sensuality (1930), a philosophy of solitude (1933).prior to this powys had published three apprentice novels: wood and stone (1915), rodmoor (1916), ducdame (1925), and had also written after my fashion in 1920, though it was not published until 1980.he had begun work on wolf solent in february 1925, it is 'the first of the four wessex novels which established john cowper powys's reputation', an  allusion not only to the place but to the influence of thomas hardy on him: his first novel, wood and stone was dedicated to hardy.in the preface he wrote for the 1961 macdonald edition of the novel powys states: 'wolf solent is a book of nostalgia, written in a foreign country with the pen of a traveller and the ink-blood of his home.wolf solent is set in ramsgard, based on sherborne, dorset, where powys attended school from may 1883, as well as blacksod, modelled on yeovil, somerset, and dorchester, dorset and weymouth, dorset, both in dorset, all places full of memories for him.while powys had been born in shirley, derbyshire and lived there for this first seven years of his life, his father then returned to his home county of dorset, and, after a brief stay in weymouth, the family resided in dorchester from may 1880 until the christmas of 1885.powys's paternal grandmother lived in nearby weymouth.for the rest of his youth powys lived in montacute, just over the dorset border in somerset.
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