Leaven Of Malice

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027901

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Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies Pdf

Winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, Leaven of Malice is the second novel in Robertson Davies’ much-loved Salterton Trilogy. Available as an eBook for the first time. The following announcement appeared in the Salterton Evening Bellman: “Professor and Mrs. Walter Vambrace are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Pearl Veronica, to Solomon Bridgetower, Esq., son of . . .” Although the malice that prompted this false engagement notice was aimed at three people only–Solly Bridgetower, Pearl Vambrace, and Gloster Ridley, the anxiety-ridden local newspaper editor–before the leaven of malice had ceased to work it had changed permanently, for good or ill, the lives of many citizens of Salterton. This is the second novel in The Salterton Trilogy (which also includes Tempest-Tost and A Mixture of Frailties).

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Penguin Books Canada
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Anglicans
ISBN : 0140054332

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Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies Pdf

Out of spite, someone puts a false engagement notice in the local newspaper causing all parties great embarrassment.

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 1550413007

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Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies Pdf

In Leaven of malice, the university corridors and newspaper offices of small-town Ontario provide an ideal backdrop for Robertson Davies to exercise his genius for creating memorable characters and comical situations. Winner of the 1954 Leacock Award, the novel combines sustained humour with a more sinister undercurrent, in Davies' seductively elegant prose.

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027895

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Tempest-Tost by Robertson Davies Pdf

The debut novel that launched Robertson Davies’ literary career, Tempest-Tost is a magnificent display of his legendary wit. The first novel in The Salterton Trilogy is now available as an eBook for the first time. An amateur production of The Tempest provides a colourful backdrop for a hilarious look at unrequited love. Mathematics teacher Hector Mackilwraith, stirred and troubled by Shakespeare’s plays, falls in love with the beautiful Griselda Webster. When Griselda shows she has plans of her own, Hector despairs and tries to commit suicide on the play’s opening night.

Author : R.S. Ford
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785653131

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The Spear of Malice (War of the Archons 3) by R.S. Ford Pdf

In the third in the epic fantasy series, War of the Archons, the war of the gods continues to threaten all existence. Perfect for fans for Brandon Sanderson, Michael J. Sullivan and Brian Staveley. As its neighbours muster for war, the city state of Kantor clings desperately to neutrality. Suraan, the queen regent, is beset on all sides, her son Rahuul still too young to take the throne. As his elder sister and guardian, Adaali's only purpose is to protect Rahuul from would be usurpers. But dark forces are at play from within and without, and she must seek help from the most unlikely of places, or be consumed by the war of the gods that threatens to destroy the very fabric of her world.

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027796

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The Salterton Trilogy by Robertson Davies Pdf

The Salterton Trilogy is comprised of the novels Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice, and A Mixture of Frailties, Robertson Davies’ first forays into fiction in the 1950s. The Trilogy is available in eBook format for the first time. In the small university town of Salterton, Ontario, dreams are quietly taking shape . . . or falling apart. In Tempest-Tost, Valentine Rich, professional director of the Salterton Little Theatre Company, is tormented by the amateurish efforts of his actors. The families Vambrace and Bridgetower almost go to war over a fake notice of engagement in the local paper in Leaven of Malice. And in A Mixture of Frailties, the fortune of the late Louisa Bridgetower is lavished on an aspiring singer because there is no male heir to claim it. Tracing the lives and incidents of a small community, The Salterton Trilogy peels off the public veneer of geniality and respectability to reveal the private passions simmering beneath. “Ingenious, erudite, entertaining . . . Davies displays all the qualities of a latter-day Trollope and shows us what modern Canada is like.” —Anthony Burgess in the Observer Books of the Year

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Manitoba Department of Education, Special Materials Services, 1978] (Winnipeg : Xerox of Canada)
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1032850203

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Leaven of Malice [large Print] by Robertson Davies Pdf

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771029875

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World of Wonders by Robertson Davies Pdf

World of Wonders, the concluding novel in Robertson Davies’ celebrated Deptford Trilogy, is available as an e-book for the first time. Called “a spectacular, soaring work, an astounding tour de force unequaled in recent literature,” World of Wonders follows the story of Magnus Eisengrim—the most illustrious magician of his age—who is spirited away from his home by a member of a traveling sideshow, the Wanless World of Wonders. “One of the great modern novelists.” Sunday Times

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Large type books
ISBN : OCLC:1011788714

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Leaven of Malice [text (large Print)] by Robertson Davies Pdf

This humorous novel explores the reactions of a small town to a false engagement notice in the local paper.

Author : William Burkitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555050532

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Expository notes, with practical observations, on the New Testament by William Burkitt Pdf

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027789

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The Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies Pdf

Gathering Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders together, The Deptford Trilogy has been hailed as a modern classic and is available as an eBook for the first time. Woven around a mysterious death, the novels trace the rich and varied, and fatefully linked, lives of Dunstan Ramsay, David Staunton, and Magnus Eisengrim. Davies has created a beguiling, fantastical, cunningly contrived trilogy of novels, luring the reader down labyrinthine tunnels of myth, history, and magic and providing an exhilarating antidote to a world from where “the fear and dread and splendor of wonder have been banished.”

Author : Heather Walter
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984818669

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Malice by Heather Walter Pdf

A princess isn’t supposed to fall for an evil sorceress. But in this “bewitching and fascinating” (Tamora Pierce) retelling of “Sleeping Beauty,” true love is more than a simple fairy tale. “Walter’s spellbinding debut is for all the queer girls and women who’ve been told to keep their gifts hidden and for those yearning to defy gravity.”—O: The Oprah Magazine Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. A curse that could only be broken by true love’s kiss. You’ve heard this before, haven’t you? The handsome prince. The happily ever after. Utter nonsense. Let me tell you, no one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses. Not the way they care about their jewels and elaborate parties and charm-granting elixirs. I thought I didn’t care, either. Until I met her. Princess Aurora. The last heir to Briar’s throne. Kind. Gracious. The future queen her realm needs. One who isn’t bothered that I am Alyce, the Dark Grace, abhorred and feared for the mysterious dark magic that runs in my veins. Humiliated and shamed by the same nobles who pay me to bottle hexes and then brand me a monster. Aurora says I should be proud of my gifts. That she . . . cares for me. Even though a power like mine was responsible for her curse. But with less than a year until that curse will kill her, any future I might see with Aurora is swiftly disintegrating—and she can’t stand to kiss yet another insipid prince. I want to help her. If my power began her curse, perhaps it’s what can lift it. Perhaps together we could forge a new world. Nonsense again. Because we all know how this story ends, don’t we? Aurora is the beautiful princess. And I— I am the villain. Book One of the Malice Duology

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027840

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Murther and Walking Spirits by Robertson Davies Pdf

Murther & Walking Spirits is available as an eBook for the first time. “I was never so amazed in my life as when the Sniffer drew his concealed weapon from its case and struck me to the ground, stone dead.” So begins the unusual story of Connor “Gil” Gilmartin when he catches his wife in flagrante with the Sniffer, his former colleague and now his murderer. Though he is struck dead in the very first line of this novel, death is only the first indignity Gil is about to suffer. For he lingers on as a ghost, and from this bleak vantage–made even less endurable by the fact that he must spend the afterlife sitting beside his killer at a film festival–he is forced to view the exploits and failures of his ancestors, from the forerunners who sailed up the Hudson to Canada during the American Revolution right up to his university-professor parents.

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027833

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The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies Pdf

The Cunning Man is a perceptive and entertaining memoir of a doctor’s life, available as an eBook for the first time. When Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high altar on Good Friday, Dr. Jonathan Hullah—whose holistic work has earned him the label “Cunning Man” (for the wizard of the folk tradition)—wants to know why. The physician-cum-diagnostician’s search for answers compels him to look back over his own long life. He conjures vivid memories of the dazzling intellectual high jinks and compassionate philosophies of his circle, including flamboyant, mystical curate Charlie Iredale; cynical, quixotic professor Brocky Gilmartin; outrageous banker Darcy Dwyer; and jocular, muscular artist Pansy Todhunter. In compelling and hilarious scenes from the divine comedy of life, The Cunning Man reveals profound truths about being human. In Robertson Davies’ last novel, he returns to those issues which concerned him throughout his writing career–the nature of friendship, religion, faith, and artistic life–with his famous wit and humour and his usual rich characterization.

Author : Mercedes Lackey
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698406629

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The Complete Arrows Trilogy by Mercedes Lackey Pdf

Together for the first time in a single volume, The Complete Arrows Trilogy is the adventure that launched Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey’s expansive fantasy realm beloved by generations of readers. Talia, once a runaway, is Chosen by the Companion Rolan, a mystical horse-like being with powers beyond imagining. She becomes one of the great Heralds of Valdemar, a protector of the realm, and a member of the Queen’s Own elite guard. Over the course of Talia’s adventures, she struggles to master her unique magical abilities, while protecting her queen, the heir to the throne, and the kingdom itself. She battles against diabolical magic, treacherous assassination plots, dangerous unrest, and traitors to her fellow Heralds.