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Ashe of Rings and Other Writings - paperback
Paperbound, 304 pages, 5.5 x 8.5", 2024, 0-929701-52-3
Preface by Nathalie Blondel JUST RELEASED
Ashe of Rings and Other Writings is our fourth Recovered Classics edition collecting the works of Mary Butts. This new paperback edition features Mary Butts's first published novel, Ashe of Rings, which depicts psychological turmoil during the First World War in the form of an occult drama. In addition there is an epistolary novella, Imaginary Letters; a pamphlet essay on disbelief and faith, Traps for Unbelievers; and a pamphlet essay on urban naivete, Warning to Hikers.
The English novelist, poet and critic Mary Butts (1890-1937) is one of the most enigmatic of the early Modernists, and the last great lost writer of the era. During the 1920s and 1930s she was as well-known and highly regarded in England as her now more famous contemporaries: H.D., Katherine Mansfield, Mina Loy, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, Jean Rhys, Djuna Barnes, Kay Boyle. She was a writer of high energy and an original style, and possessed particular insight into the generation which survived the First World War. McPherson & Company has been reissuing her works in uniform, newly edited volumes since 1992.