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                                RODMOOR




                               BOOKS BY

                           JOHN COWPER POWYS

        THE WAR AND CULTURE, 1914                         $ .60
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                       BY THEODORE FRANCIS POWYS

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                      PUBLISHED BY G. ARNOLD SHAW
                   GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, NEW YORK




                                RODMOOR

                               A ROMANCE

                           JOHN COWPER POWYS
                   Author of “Wood and Stone,” etc.

                _O they rade on, and farther on,_
                  _And they waded rivers abune the knee,_
                _And they saw neither sun nor moon_
                  _But they heard the roaring of the sea._
                                               ANONYMOUS.

                            [Illustration]

                                 1916
                            G. ARNOLD SHAW
                               NEW YORK

                            COPYRIGHT, 1916
                           BY G. ARNOLD SHAW

                      COPYRIGHT, IN GREAT BRITAIN
                           AND THE COLONIES

                          VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY
                        BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK




                               DEDICATED
                           TO THE SPIRIT OF
                             EMILY BRONTE




CONTENTS


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