The Cornish Trilogy
What's Bred in the Bone, The Rebel Angels, The Lyre of Orpheus
$62.36
- Paperback
1152 pages
- Release Date
12 September 2011
Summary
Reissue of this classic trilogy comprising The Rebel Angels, What’s Bred in the Bone and The Lyre of Orpheus
The University of St John and the Holy Ghost (known affectionately as Spook) has a problem - and an opportunity. Strange, eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish has died and faculty members have been made executors of his complicated will. But in the realization of their duties, they find themselves drawn into Cornish’s bizarre, secretive and mystical world. In this…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241952610 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241952611 |
| Author: | Robertson Davies |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1152 |
| Release Date: | 12 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 766g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 48mm |
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Critics Review
Deliciously readable
Deliciously readable * New York Times *
One of the most remarkable achievements of contemporary fiction * Sunday Times *
Nourishes the brain while it beguiles the senses * Time *
A first-rate storyteller and a real moralist with a crackling sense of humour * Newsweek *
Davies combines elements of the fantastic with details of everyday life to show us a world in which the miraculous coexists with the mundane * New York Times *
About The Author
Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies was born in Thamesville, Ontario, in 1913. A novelist, playwright, literary critic and essayist, he received numerous awards for his work. It is as a writer of fiction that Robertson Davies achieved international recognition, with such books as The Salterton Trilogy (Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice and A Mixture of Frailties); The Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, The Manticore and World of Wonders); The Cornish Trilogy (The Rebel Angels, What’s Bred in the Bone, shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize, and The Lyre of Orpheus); Murther & Walking Spirits, and The Cunning Man. Robertson Davies died in 1995.
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