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The novels Mr Weston ’ s Good Wine ( 1927 ), Unclay, and the short-story collection Fables are most praised, while his early non-fiction work The Soliloquy of a Hermit 1916 also has its admirers.

Powys was deeply, if unconventionally, religious ; the Bible was a major influence and he had a special affinity with writers of the 17th and 18th centuries, including John Bunyan, Cervantes, Jeremy Taylor, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding.

Among more recent writers, he admired Thomas Hardy, Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche.