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'What I've tried to do in this tale is to invent a group of really mad people who have the fantastic and grotesquely humorous extravagance that, after all, is an element in life'. So wrote John Cowper Powys himself in his prefatory note to this novel first published in 1952. In this 'wild book' Powys creates a 'Philosophy of the Demented' expressing fundamental truths about madness and sanity. Most of the novel, though, like so much of his later fiction, it is more a fantasy, takes place in Glint Hall, a lunatic asylum. The two main characters are John Hush and Tenna Sheer. They fall in love. The rapidly developing, psychologically complex narrative centres on 'Hush's organization of a conspiracy of revolt amongst the most fantastically crazy of the inmates'. It makes for a strange, disturbing, and yet, at times, funny read.
 
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Hardback Editions

January 1952 : Library Binding
Cover of ISBN: B002GDL63OTitle: The Inmates
Author(s): John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.
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Paperback Editions

September 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0571242154Title: The Inmates
Author(s): John Cowper Powys
ISBN: 0-571-24215-4 / 978-0-571-24215-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: Faber Finds
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December 1974 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 090424749XTitle: Inmates, The
Author(s): John Cowper Powys
ISBN: 0-904247-49-X / 978-0-904247-49-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Village Press
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June 1974 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 9998178746Title: The Inmates
Author(s): John Cowper Powys
ISBN: 9998178746 / 9789998178748
Publisher: Olympic Marketing Corp
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Other Editions

January 1952 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B0017UK41WTitle: The Inmates
Author(s): John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Macdonald
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1952 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B001A9ELIWTitle: The Inmates
Author(s): John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Macdonald
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1952 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B0017DN47KTitle: The Inmates
Author(s): John Cowper Powys
Publisher: Macdonald
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